English Literature

Assessment

- Drama-students study Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. (Exam-2hrs 15mins, 30%) - Prose-Thr exam-students study Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. (Exam-Thr, 20%) - Poetry-students study a selection of post-2000 poetry in The Forward Book of Poetry and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (Exam-2hrs 15mins, 30%) - Coursework-students choose two texts not studied in the rest of the course on which to write a comparative essay of 2500-3000 words. The texts are of the student's choice but must be agreed by the exam board. Past textual choices have included F. Scott Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. (Coursework-20%)