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. The creative element can take the form of a novel excerpt, a collection of short fiction or poetry or a stage or screenplay. 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 and English Literature Special Subjects (students choose 4)

• Children's Film and Television 

• Creative Non Fiction

• Extreme Fictions

• Sympathetic Texts 

• The Art of Translation 

• The Hatred of Poetry 

• Writer as Global Reader: Responding to Texts in Translation 

• Fantasy and Fandom: writing back to the medieval in modern fantasy 

• African American Freedom: 20th Century Literature and Visual Culture 

• After the Deluge: Writing and Recovery after the First World War 

• Alternative Facts: Genre, Historicism and the Fantasy of Other Pasts  

• American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century

• Byron and Keats 

• Digital Witness: Stories of Surveillance 

• Elizabeth I and her Poets 

• Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From 

• Feminist Killjoys: Theories of Gender and Sexuality 

• Flourish for the Players (Shakespeare's Contemporaries) 

• From Cover to Cover: Histories of the Book

• Funny Feelings in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature 

• Gender and Irish Fiction 

• Guilty Pleasures: Reading the Historical Romance 

• Islamophobia and the Novel  

• Last Year’s Novels

• Law and Literature

• Literary Translation 

• Literature at Sea: 1851 to present 

• Literature in the Age of Evolution 

• Love Poetry

• Magic, Monsters and Marvels in the Medieval World 

• Making Global Literatures in Britian 

• Mapping the Middle Ages: Cultural Encounters in the Medieval East and West 

• Modern American Poetry 

• Modernism in the Magazines

• Neo-Victorianism

• New York, New York 

• Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction 

• Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny 

• PoMo Historical Fictions 

• Remembering World War One 

• Rude Britannia: 1660 - 1830 

• Shakespeare's Tragedies 

• Studies in Nineteenth-Century Single Author 

• TMI: Confessional Writing, from Rousseau to present 

• The Art of Translation 

• The End of Life As We Know It: The Implications of Digital Technology 

• The Modern Short Story 

• Politics and Terror in the Age of Revolutions