BA English Literature and European Literature and Culture

Description:
This programme will enable you to cultivate reading across linguistic boundaries in order to highlight everything that the exclusive focus on a national literature tends to obscure. In each year, you will take modules from English as well as core modules on European Literature and Culture such as Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe. There is also an exciting range of optional modules both within and outside the department to choose from. These modules will unfold not only the fascinating transformations and travels of literary genres and texts across time and space, but also the intersections of European literature with other cultural forms such as film, drama, the visual arts, music and new media.

Year 1

European Literature and Culture
Compulsory Modules (at least three of)
European Modernist Fiction
Core Issues in the Comparative Study of European Literature
Europe from 1789 to 1945
Europe since 1945
English Literature
Languages of Literature
Researching the English Essay
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Optional modules (ELC):
French Cinema
Italian Medieval and Renaissance Culture
IWLP - a modern foreign language

Year 2

Compulsory Modules
Modern Drama
European Romanticism: Themes and Genres
Optional modules (ELC):
Medieval French Love Literature
Italian Cinema
Brecht in Translation
IWLP - a modern foreign language
Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
English Literature
3 modules from a list including:
Renaissance Texts and Cultures
Romantics to Decadents
Shakespeare
Women's Writing
Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
Writing America

Final Year

Compulsory Modules
Joint Dissertation
European Realism
Optional modules (ELC):
Medieval Arthurian Literature
The Epic in Medieval Europe
European Cinema
English Literature
3 modules from a list including
Renaissance Women Writing
Fiction and Ethnicity
Children's Literature
Shakespeare in Film
Samuel Beckett