BA (Hons) English Literature Bachelor's degree at Leeds Beckett University

Consider examples of the three main genres into which Shakespearean texts were divided in the First Folio. You'll be encouraged to examine and problematise these categories. This module will consider the contexts of performance and reception for which this drama was produced and the contested role of theatre within Early Modern culture. By examining drama as a social practice, and exploring texts in relation to their historical moment of production, you'll explore some approaches to the contextu

This module will support you as you start to work at degree level and develop strategies for the interpretation of contemporary literary texts. You'll engage with a range of post-millennial texts that seek to problematize the contemporary period. Teaching will focus on literary innovations and ways in which texts interact with techniques, approaches and debates in literary studies today. Your learning will explore a range of critical approaches through a number of set texts to help you develop k

This module will enable you to study narrative by examining a series of short stories, introducing key concepts such as genre and subgenre, context, and theory. You'll explore specific ideas about narrative fiction such as reliability, authority, perspective, chronology, and story versus plot.

Focus on a single, long novel from a canonical text published in an early period as you explore the formal features of the novel. You'll start to study critical theory as a means of enabling elaborate reading of a longer literary text.

This module will introduce the principles of adaptation from literary text to a range of mediated forms. You'll focus on the study of one key chosen text, and will explore its adaptations to various other literary and media forms. This study will enable you to consider the key principles that underpin textual adaptation, explore the ways in which form impacts the production of a text, analyse the adaptation as an important ingredient in literary production. You'll respond creatively to literary

Study a wide variety of poetry written in English and gain an understanding of the development of poetry from the Shakespearean period through to contemporary times. You will be better acquainted with a range of poetry in order to develop your sense of literary history. You will study critical and theoretical perspectives and interpretive tools to enable you to approach the reading and analysis of poetry with confidence.

Explore key features and phenomena of literature in the eighteenth century. You'll study topics such as the rise of the novel form, the development of the Gothic, and the early Romantic movement in Britain. Focusing on new literary emergences, this module will explain these in historical terms as you draw on key theoretical and critical debates on the period.

Study a selection of literature of the 20th century and examine how literature writes about some of the key events of the for example as WWI, WWII, post-war austerity and the Cold War. You will understand key terms such as modernism and postmodernism. You will consider texts that focus on the idea of alienation and dystopia and the place of the individual in society and explore why writers of the period turned to imagining the future in order to express their concerns with their present moments.

Gain a conceptual and critical vocabulary for reading and analysing texts from formerly colonised regions of the world. Given the central role played by narrative and representation in the expansion of empire, you'll explore how literature has responded to, challenged, and intervened in histories and experiences of colonialism and exploitation. This module will encourage you to consider how literature explores the multiple legacies of colonialism in our present world. You'll read some of the mos

Develop critical and interpretative skills informed by an understanding of the role theory plays in literary studies. This module will enable you to become more confident and more adventurous in your study of literature.

Study the rich and complex idea of 'black' writing through texts published in Britain across a wide historical period. You'll develop your ability to communicate critical insights into the historic marginalisation of black voices in English literature, especially within British writing, while examining why these voices matter in contemporary society. Through simulated live briefs, you'll apply your ideas in ways that connect literary study to real-world contexts.

Explore key aspects of fiction writing and respond to a range of authors from different cultures to produce your own short stories. You'll study and practise elements of narrative craft, for example characterisation, dialogue, dramatisation, point of view and story architecture.

Explore key aspects of writing for screen and respond to a range of texts to produce your own short scripts and/or treatments. You'll study and practise key aspects of screenwriting craft including structure, dialogue and scene design, and how these are deployed in writing stories for screen.

Explore issues of context - what it is, where it comes from and what its relation is to other forms of information. You will develop strong research skills by taking a theoretically informed approach to contextual study of literature.

Extend your knowledge of writing poetry that you built in your first year. You'll develop and refine your understanding of areas such as the poetic line, voice, diction, form(s), image, and register. This module will enable you to develop skills in close reading and analysis. It will give you an eye to provide actionable and constructive feedback to one another in a workshop setting. Reflective work, and an emphasis on writing process, will be as important as the finished product. You'll be enco