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Overview

This course is designed to encourage wide reading and detailed research within the whole field of literary studies, including prose, poetry and drama. Students are given the opportunity to become independent readers able to discuss literary texts and topics with critical judgement. The course places strong emphasis on the 'Traditions of English Literature' and invites students both to explore and relate them to present-day writing.

This course is aimed at those who want to study English Literature beyond that required for Key Stage 4 of the National Curriculum, and who have already achieved English/ English Literature GCSE grade C or equivalent. The Advanced GCE in English Literature prepares students who wish to study English Literature at degree level or equivalent and provides a wide range of opportunities for courses in the Arts, Humanities and Media and Communication in Higher Education.

Specification aims

The aims of these specifications are to encourage students to:

• Develop their interest in and enjoyment of literary studies through reading widely, independently and critically.
• Gain an insight into the traditions of English Literature, and to take the opportunity also to read both texts in English written outside the UK and literature in translation.
• Develop as confident, independent and reflective readers of a range of texts, learning to express their responses effectively through speech and writing.
• Use critical concepts and terminology with understanding and discrimination.
• Reflect on their own responses to texts, informed by other readers' interpretations, with an awareness of the contexts in which texts are written.
• Use their detailed knowledge and understanding of individual texts to explore comparisons and connections between them, and to appreciate the significance of cultural and historical influences upon readers and writers.