Course Overview

The English Literature course offers a liberating exploration into a range of literary texts. Enlighten your understanding and sharpen your critical and analytical skills, whilst shaping your own writing ability. This course is designed to offer a diverse learning experience that includes enrichment activities.  

Paper 1: Literary Genres Covers:

• – Exploring aspects of a mainstream literary genre, such as comedy or tragedy, and considering how genres continue to evolve.
• – Developing a critical insight into a range of rich and interesting texts, such as Shakespeare’s Othello, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

Paper 2: Texts and Genres Covers:

• – Developing an in-depth understanding of political and social protest writing; this area of study will explore the ways in which plot, characters, setting and structural patterns have been crafted alongside an exploration into the ways in which language is used.
• – Studying a range of rich and interesting texts such as Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and William Blake’s poetry.

Non-exam Assessment: Theory and Independence Covers:

The non-exam assessment will enable you to gain an in-depth insight into two texts; one a collection of poetry and one prose. Both texts will be analysed in light of different critical theories, using a critical anthology as a starting point.