Literature

Literature aims to deepen students’ awareness and understanding of the rich imagination and language that is both our literary inheritance and a reflection of the shape of our culture.

Students of Literature in the B.A. will have the opportunity to explore many periods and genres of literary texts in English, in the context of a multidisciplinary sequence of units in the Humanities. The programme aims to foster alert and thoughtful reading habits, to extend the range of student experience and to develop clear and effective critical thinking and language skills.

Some units are based on forms and genres of literature, some on the literature of a particular historical period or place with an emphasis on major cultural movements and ideas, some on particular topical issues or themes, and others on the creative imagination.

Units
HX541 Narrative and Text
HX510 Studying Poetry
HX514 Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
HX515 Gothic Genres, Contested Spaces
HL506 Modern Texts
HX553 Textual Selves: Narrative and Identity
HL609 The Victorian Age in Literature
HL611 Romantic Poetry and Prose
HL612 Renaissance Literature
HL615 A Study of Selected Authors
HL616 Picture and Word
HL644 Myths & Mythmakers
HL810 Novelisation of 19th Century English Poetry
HL811 The Abject and the Grotesque

Unit Descriptions are available in the UoB Handbook