Focus on the advanced study of literary texts in an historical context. This module will explore the relationship between history including intellectual history, political history and social history, and literary analysis. You'll discuss methodological, conceptual and theoretical issues and debates relating to the study of literature and history. This learning will then inform your engagement with a selection of tutor-led case studies. Your case studies could focus on literature pre-2000, or on literature from any historical period up to, and including, the contemporary moment.

Explore the art of creating meaning through language and literary text. You'll study the theories and concepts that underpin the practice of creative writing to improve your understanding and mastery of the craft. You'll also understand how to establish your own output within the wider literary landscape.

Focus on the advanced study of literary texts in an historical context. This module will explore the relationship between history including intellectual history, political history and social history, and literary analysis. You'll discuss methodological, conceptual and theoretical issues and debates relating to the study of literature and history. This learning will then inform your engagement with a selection of tutor-led case studies. Your case studies could focus on literature pre-2000, or on literature from any historical period up to, and including, the contemporary moment.

This module will introduce you to a range of recent developments in the theoretical landscape of English literary studies and also to emerging methodologies of creative criticism. In weekly workshops, you will explore various themes and concerns in the discipline through a series of creative-critical interventions. This module will orient you as a postgraduate-level thinker and writer by sampling some of the main areas of study (theory and method) that will be pursued in-depth in specialist modules, and which might be further explored in your extended project. Besides introducing these subject-specific skills, the module will develop your ability to reflect on and evaluate your learning experience.

This module will introduce you to the advanced study of contemporary literature produced just before or since the millennium. You'll explore key conceptual and theoretical approaches and apply these methods to the analysis of a variety literary texts, genres, and forms, produced across a range of locations and cultural contexts. There will be a particular emphasis throughout the module on the international reach of contemporary literary production. Organised into key topics and themes, you'll examine texts in relation to their specific contexts and take a comparative approach to literary responses to contemporary concerns.

In this module you will reflect on the relationship between the study and practice of English literature and the development of professional skills. You write and present an application to undertake a substantial project of your design as preparation for the semester 3 module, Major Project. Introductory workshops will outline objective-setting in a professional context as well as methodologies of reflective practice. Initial project design will be undertaken in consultation with a tutor, before you organise an event to present your project plans, and then complete a formal application, drawing upon prior knowledge and skills identified and refined in this module.

This module will enable you to undertake a sustained piece of research, or research and creative practice, in English Literature on a topic selected by themselves. Your progress will be overseen by an individual tutor. The particularities of the project, including its topic and its balance of creative, critical, and reflective writing, will be determined in tutorial discussion.