English Literature

Course summary

The first year of the course focuses on the theme of ‘Love through the Ages’. You will study in detail; Shakespeare’s Othello; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitgerald and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, together with a collection of Poetry. You will also enjoy reading a wider range of prose and poetry. You will produce a piece of writing (NEA) where you will choose one of the two texts you have to write about. You will be encouraged to read independently and to research the times in which writers were working; you will learn about the social and historical context of literary texts. In the second year you will study further set texts written post-1945 for examination: The Color Purple by Alice Walker; A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Carol Ann Duffy’s Feminine Gospels.