Compulsory module
Creative Writing Project
This module requires students to produce an extended piece of writing in the form of a Creative Writing Project, recognising the combined practical and self-reflective processes they have been involved in on the creative writing part of the programme, by including both a creative and a critical component. For the creative writing component, students will be able to choose between any of the genres studied, thus having the opportunity to consolidate preparatory, drafting, editing and self-assessment skills under expert supervision by a genre-specialist. For the critical component, students will be expected to demonstrate an ability to place their own writing - as process and product - in a wider literary and cultural context.
Optional modules (may include)
Creative Writing Special Subjects (students choose 1 or 2)
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Creative Non Fiction
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The Hatred Of Poetry
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Sympathetic Texts
English Literature Special Subjects (students choose 2 or 3)
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After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War
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African American Freedom: 20th Century Literature and Visual Culture
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African Popular Culture
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American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
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The Art of Translation
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Bedtime Stories: Reading Children’s Picture Books
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Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin
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Decoding Pop Culture
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Elizabeth I and her Poets
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The End of Life As We Know It: The Implications of Digital Technology
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Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From
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Fantasy and Fandom: Writing Back to the Medieval in Modern Fantasy
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From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art
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Hidden Romanticism
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Islamophobia and the Novel
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Jane Austen: the Novels and their Afterlives
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Last Year's Novels
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Law and Literature
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Making Global Literatures in Britain
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Mapping the Middle Ages: Cultural Encounters in the Medieval East and West
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Modern American Poetry
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Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985
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Muslim Women's Popular Fiction
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Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction
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Paradise Lost: Text and context
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Remembering World War One
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Senses of the Past: Historical Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Shakespeare's Tragedies
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Single Author: Virginia Woolf
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The Social Life of Literature
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The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film