BA (Hons) English Language and Literature Bachelor's degree at the University of Sheffield

An introduction to the subdisciplines of linguistics known as phonetics and phonology (sounds), and morphology, syntax, and semantics (structures). The module is designed to provide you with an understanding of the key concepts and terminology necessary to describe and explain sounds and structures of English, and of other languages. Lectures will cover major topics in the formal descriptions of speech sounds and morpho-syntax. Seminar activities will help equip you with the practical skills nec

Introduces students to stylistic variation in language, exploring the varied ways in which linguistic choices contribute to meaning and effect. Examines a wide range of different text types, including literary narratives, journalism, advertising, political speeches, poetry and song lyrics, drama and screenplays. Moves beyond basic grammatical analysis to consider the functional, contextual, and generic dimensions of language use. Applies relevant linguistic concepts and theories to the study of

Introduces you to a diverse range of texts in English (prose, poetry, and film) with a focus on texts published since 2000. Texts will be chosen to provoke thinking and debate on urgent and controversial topics that might include: globalisation and neoliberalism; ecology and animal lives; artificial intelligence and the posthuman; political activism and social justice; migration and displacement; state violence and armed conflict. Discusses formally and conceptually challenging works, raises eth

Explores the development of theatre and film from 1900 to the present, tracking that journey through a series of canonical and counter-canonical examples from each medium. These two art forms have much that connects them as representational, performance-based and commercial cultural practices, but also much that separates them as human, technical and technological spectacles. Offers a practical introduction to theatre and film criticism, theory and interpretation that will help to interrogate su

Gives you the opportunity to study developments in comedy and tragedy from classical antiquity to the present day. This focus on genre enables you to take a comparative approach to literary analysis, setting works of classical antiquity alongside those of the early modern, modern, and contemporary worlds. Equips you to draw connections between periods studied separately at different points of your degree and between disparate forms, e.g. drama and the novel. Considers questions such as: what is

Explores the range of literature indebted to biblical and classical literature, themes, and characters. The Bible, Greek and Roman mythology, represent some of the central sources for European literary imaginations. Featuring a range of lecturers from across the School of English, the module will help you learn to think critically about biblical and classical themes such as divine destruction, love, gender, homecoming, colonialism, nostalgia, and empire, and read a variety of authors, from Ameli

Of particular interest to anyone who wants to know more about the first c.900 years of English literature and language. Analyses a wide range of the earliest English literary texts (c. 600-1500), including the oldest known English poem and the first autobiographical work by a woman, covering texts that are well known (e.g. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) and texts that you will probably never encounter elsewhere. You will look at Old English texts (in translation) and Middle English texts (in transl

Aims to help you to develop your expressive and technical skills in writing poetry and prose and to improve your abilities as an editor and critic of your own and other people's writing. You will be guided in the production of new work and encouraged to develop an analytical awareness of both the craft elements and the wider cultural and theoretical contexts of writing. Explores poetic and prose techniques for creating new poems and narrative techniques for generating some prose work through the

Of particular interest to anyone who wants to know more about the first 1000 years of English language and literature. Works backward over a whole millennium of English, 1600 to 600. Each week's lectures and seminar focus on one century and one text representative of that century (for example, Margery Kempe's Book, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and Beowulf). Uses a variety of techniques - literary, linguistic, anthropological, cultural-historical - to analyse each text, thereby opening up discussi

Structured around the writings of Darwin, Marx, Freud. Considers selections from all three philosophers' writings, such as, for example, Darwin's The Origin of Species; covers key concepts from Marx's work, commodity fetishism; alienation, and investigates Freud's philosophy of the subject through selected readings from his writings. Dismantles cultural prejudice and engages with, and in, revolutionary thinking. Prepares you for modules like Critical and Literary Thought but, most importantly, hel

Creativity is a core property of human language use. Speakers of English and all other languages can use their knowledge of the language to produce endless utterances that have never been heard before. What's more, listeners can understand these utterances, despite the fact that they are completely new. In this module you will learn about the creative dimensions of human language through a [text cut off in source]