BA (Hons) English Bachelor's degree at Northampton

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to the dual roles involved in the construction of textual meaning: writing and reading. In exploring imaginative and critical reading and writing practices in a range of genres, students will engage in identifying the relevance of textual creativity to real-world applications.

This module offers an introduction to British Literature post-1945 to the present day. It considers key developments in poetry, drama and the novel in the context of literary movements and social change. It examines a range of writers portraying the mainstream and margins of British culture. It is designed to develop students' skills in reading a variety of contemporary genres, and to encourage them to begin to apply theoretical and critical considerations to liteature.

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to the study of Shakespeare's plays at University level (along with essential historical backgrounds and scholarly methodolgies) and to explore the range of meanings illuminated in the plays by contemporary cultural concerns, recent critical perspectives, and forms of adaptation into other artforms and media, including film and stage performance. Students will be encouraged to play an active role in debating these meanings and advancing persuas

Assessment: Essay with Annotated Bibliography assignment and Presentation

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to the relationship between literature and evolving media culture and technologies, with emphasis on the modern age. Understanding print and digital formats within mediated cultural frameworks allow for exploration of contemporary understandings of new skills and capabilities for reading now.

This module takes up the challenge of the Black Lives Matter movement to ask the question: what does it mean to decolonise the literary canon? It explores literary representations of global ethnic majorities within a range of texts written in English and drawn from different historical periods.

This module explores literary representations of the natural world and the diverse ways in which writers have responded to the wild and the non-human. The module emphasises the significance of literary texts in contributing to contemporary debates regarding our relationship with the environment and other animals.

The purpose of this module is to provide students with a survey of key American texts and writers from the Colonial period to the Middle of the Twentieth Century to explore how literature offers perspectives on the key thematic and formal concerns of US fiction.

This module provides students with a grounding in literary theory and criticism, considering this in light of how these areas relate to `the real world'. This will involve the study of major theorists, terms, concepts and perspectives underpinning key approaches in the field.

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to a diverse range of writers and texts from the Victorian period, situating them in the context of the major cultural and political changes of the era, whilst also considering how the period has been reimagined in neo-Victorian literature.

The purpose of this module is to analyse ways in which American fiction responded to key events and issues of the post World War 2 period such as changing perceptions of mental health, race, gender and sexuality; the counter culture; consumerism; rebellion and conformity.

This module examines fantasy literature written for and about children and young people. Tracing its relation to the fairy tale tradition, it explores children's fantasy fiction including classics of the genre and contemporary YA novels with the aim of understanding its formal features, ideological parameters and thematic concerns.

This module examines city literature via the framework of postmodernism. It considers the central place the city holds in the literary imagination and the relationship between center and periphery. It does so through the lense of contemporary critical and theoretical perspectives, questioning the continued relevance of postmodernism.

The purpose of this module is to provide opportunities to study nonfiction writing across a range of purposes, genres and registers, and to explore applications of these forms of writing to real-world and work-based environtments. Students will learn skills in assessing external briefs and effective writing for purposes that extend beyond scholarship or the classroom. An element of the module will be delivered in the context of live-client briefs and work-informed learning.

The purpose of this module is to explore textual representations of class alongside critical and theoretical conceptualisations and responses. This module is designed to explore various forms of social class-identities, including constructions of class consciousness and the 'making' of the archetypes and class ideals within textual representation.

The purpose of this module is to provide an opportunity for students to develop, at length, a particular disciplinary interest. This may derive either from study in the first two years of the degree, or from reading and/or practice activities on their own initiative. In either case, they will bring to bear on their subject matter the analytical techniques learnt during their degree.

The purpose of this module is to examine the development of Gothic Literature from its inception in the mid eighteenth century to the modernized urban Gothic of the late nineteenth century. The module will situate the genre in its wider cultural and historical contexts and consider how the Gothic imagination expresses itself aesthetically, culturally and politically during this period.

This module explores ideas of human freedom and social justice in the literature of the early modern period, linking art's utopian potential and historical liberation struggles. It examines a range of genres and authors in the light of their cultural, historical and intellectual contexts, and discusses their relevance to today.

The purpose of this module is to critically evaluate literature which in someway can be considered as representing, evoking, or playing a part in revolution. The texts studied represent diverse literary forms and modes of literatures which address moments of social