English Literature

Course summary

A level English Literature will allow you to discover a whole new world of literature and writing. You will study Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy, Othello, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, as well as a collection of post-1900 love poems from poets such as Heaney, Larkin and St Vincent Millay. Texts such as Tennessee Williams’ tragic melodrama A Streetcar Named Desire, Arundhati Roy's ground-breaking novel The God of Small Things and Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collection, Feminine Gospels are also stuided. For the coursework element, you will research your own literary interests by comparing two texts, which are connected either by genre, such as the Gothic or Dystopian fiction, or by theme, such as gender, class or ethnicity. Sounds like the subject for you?