BA (Hons) English Literature Bachelor's degree at Lincoln Bishop University

This module introduces you to the literary-critical skills and approaches that are fundamental to the study of English. It will equip you with specialist analytical terminology and techniques while reinforcing and developing your existing skills of analysis. You will consider the construction of a range of texts drawn from different genres and literary-historical periods. Particular attention will be paid in taught sessions to the subject-specific research, planning and writing skills that you w

This module is an introduction to Gothic effects, such as suspense, mood, eeriness, the weird, fantasy and horror. It covers texts from the eighteenth century to the present to build students' knowledge of the rise of the Gothic as well as its different manifestations in different genres and creative outputs, such as the novel, poetry and film. It also contextualises the Gothic by identifying its conventions, themes and motifs, such as the graveyard, the supernatural and monsters. Because of thi

This module offers an introduction to some of the literary works, frameworks, and cultural developments in modern American literature. The primary texts will be drawn from a variety of genres and forms of writing, and will cover a period from the emergence of modern literature in the early twentieth-century through to the diversification of American cultural voices in the post-war period. Teaching will pay particular attention to the enhancement of close reading skills and the development of ora

Have you ever stopped to wonder about the origins of your favourite texts? When did human beings first begin writing down, recording, and retelling stories from their lives and imaginations? This one-of-a-kind module introduces you to the most important foundational myths, legends, fables and stories to have ever informed Western literature and media. It traces how literary texts have drawn on and transformed potent myths, and the impact which changes in society have had upon English literature

This module will equip you with the necessary skills to analyse and evaluate poetry. It empowers you to read, analyse, and discuss poems and lyrics by giving you the tools to express your responses to poetry by understanding technical features of poetic form and language. It will give you an idea of the breath and range of poetry in English by developing intertextual connections and recognising its relation to changing contexts. It engages in current debates about the nature and function of poet

This module studies Shakespeare's timeless work and investigates the ways his texts are repeatedly rewritten and performed today. Over 400 years from his death the popularity of his work is not weakened; on the contrary his plays are read, studied, and performed all over the world both in English and in translation. His work is as relevant as ever and it is to be found in the richness of language expressions which still permeate the English language, and in intertextual connections found in mult

This module offers a broad examination of the longstanding and multifaceted relationship between literature and film. It begins with an introduction to the critical vocabulary of film analysis as a means of establishing the semiological differences between film art and traditional literary forms. It then proceeds, through a series of textual and cultural case-studies, to explore key elements of the complex interplay between these two art forms. It examines formal strategies and ideological impli

Through this module you will embark on a journey to discover world literatures by exploring a range of texts written both by authors whose national languages include English and those whose work has been translated into English. The module studies how literary texts are transformed by cultural transmission, the significance of major technological advances in publishing, as well as the reasons for publishing in English and the variety and diversity of the literature produced in the world. By exam