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English literature at Reading: What will you study?
English literature at Reading: What will you study?
Modules: 'core' modules and options
1
Three core modules
2
Two optional modules in English Literature
3
One optional module from another subject
Single Honours English
Literature
Part 1 (first year)
1
Two core modules in English Literature
2
One optional module in English Literature
3
Two core modules in English Language
English Language and Literature
Part 1 (first year)
1
Three core modules in English Literature
2
One optional module in English Literature
3
Core modules in your other subject
Joint Honours with English Literature
Part 1 (first year)
Please note: some joint honours courses will have 60 credits in core modules in both subjects, and so no optional modules will be available in year 1.
Core modules
EN1RC: Research and Criticism
Core modules
EN1GC: Genre and Context
Core modules
EN1PE: Poetry in English
Optional modules
EN1CW: Creative Writing
Optional modules
EN1PW: Persuasive Writing
Optional modules
EN1TCL: Twentieth-century American Literature
Optional modules
EN1COMP: What is comparative literature?
Part 2
Part 2 modules: literature in context
Part 2 modules: genres
Part 2 modules: Theories and Criticism
Part 3
Part 3 modules
American poetry
Children’s literature
Contemporary American fiction
Decadence and degeneration: The literature of the fin de siècle
Editing the Renaissance
Family romances: Genealogy, identity and imposture in the nineteenth-century novel
James Joyce
Margaret Atwood
(Post) Modernist Biofiction: Henry James, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath
The Digital Text: Literature and the New Technologies
The writer’s workshop: studying manuscripts
Alfred Hitchcock
Black British fiction
Utopia: The Ideal Society in English and American Literature
Dickens
The Eighteenth-century novel: Sex and sensibility
Medieval Otherworlds
Holocaust Testimony: Memory, Trauma and Representation
Irish poetry after Yeats
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