Year One
Modes of Writing
This is a core module for first-year undergraduates reading for the degree QW38 English Literature and Creative Writing The module is 100% fully assessed The module complements The Written World and prepares you for the more specialist writing modules in two and three such as Composition and Creative Writing The Practice of Poetry The Practice of Fiction and The Personal Writing Project The module also complements other academic optional modules in which writing imitation rhetoric or translation may be practised or studied
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Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Taking you from the mythical court of King Arthur to the real world of ambition intrigue and danger in the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I this module introduces you to early literature written in a range of genres (romance epic fabliau) and poetic forms You will study texts like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Thomas More’s Utopia Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s sonnets to explore some of the period’s highest ideals—‘trawthe’ or integrity—as well as some of humanity’s darkest impulses greed deception revenge and desire
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Epic into Novel
Tracking the transition from the epics of the ancient world to their incarnation as texts of modernity this module introduces you to some of the most influential and formative works of world literature You will study central texts of the classical world such as Gilgamesh Homer’s Iliad Virgil’s Aeneid and Catullus; ancient epics from India and Africa; Milton’s Paradise Lost; as well as responses to ancient epic by Tennyson Margaret Atwood Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley Reading across history and cultures between languages and genres you will develop the skills to analyse narrative character and style
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The Written World
This module will introduce students on the in English Literature and Creative Writing to ideas and theories from literary studies linguistics critical theory translation studies and cultural studies that will underpin more specialised scholarly and creative study in the second and third
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Year Two
Composition and Creative Writing
You will develop your fiction writing through practice of the processes involved from inception through drafting and revision to considerations of audience You will gain insights into narrative form including traditional and experimental methods
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Year Three
Personal Writing Project
The Personal Writing Project will see you working closely with a practitioner to advance your technical and critical skills in the development of a portfolio of work focused on a specific genre You will gain an appreciation of the research and methodology needed for large-scale creative works and in so doing gain the maturity and confidence to advance your career as a professional writer
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Optional modules
Optional modules can vary from to Example optional modules may include
The Practice of Poetry
The Practice of Fiction
Screenwriting
Advanced Screenwriting
US Writing and Culture 1780-1920
Romantic and Victorian Poetry
The Seventeenth Century
Game Theory Interactive and Video Game Narratives
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