University of Bristol

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BA English

Course Description

About BA English Year one is introductory, providing training in the skills and conventions of academic writing. In years two and three, the study of successive periods of English literature is combined with work on individual authors, topics, and genres. There is a range of possible options, which in recent years has included: Aesthetic Possibilities Arthurian Literature Beats and Crazies Creative Writing Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Writing of America Dangerous Books Darkest London Early Modern Prose Fiction Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing The Fairy Tale in English Freud and Shakespeare Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage Literature and Medicine Literature and the Sea New England's Dreaming Paradise Lost Place in Victorian and Recent Fiction The Poet as Witness Poetry of the 1960s Postcolonial Imaginings Revenge Tragedy Rudyard Kipling Shakespeare's Sonnets Theory and Practice of Literary Editing Twentieth-Century Women Writers The Uncanny U.S. Postmodernist Fiction Victorian Afterlives Women in Medieval Romance Writing the Self Writing the Working Classes.

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3year

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