electiveHQ

This module will explore a range of children’s literature by an eclectic set of writers from different cultural and historical contexts, surveying the ...

Literary genre is the most important element of a writer’s craft, of a reader’s understanding, of a critic’s tool-box. In every kind of literary (and ...

This module will explore how the contemporary is represented through speculative, dystopian fiction and imagined futures. We will analyse key texts fr ...

As the year 1000 approached, the Anglo-Saxons were filled with fear, both for the coming apocalypse expected 1000 years after Christ and the very real ...

This Level 1 seminar-style course aims to introduce beginning students to the mechanics of reading poetry. It is unashamedly rooted in close reading, ...

This module introduces students to literature from the 1830s to the first decades of the twentieth century. This period of dramatic change, as Britain ...