English Literature

About this course

English literature is the study of how language, imagination and form work together to create meaning, and of how the texts produced across centuries of human experience reflect and shape the societies that made them. It is a discipline that takes reading seriously, asking not just what a text says but how it says it, why it was made when and how it was, and what it has meant to different audiences in different times. Studying English literature develops your capacity for close reading, sustained argument, and clear, persuasive writing, skills that are transferable across an enormous range of careers. At Coventry you will engage with a broad and ambitious conception of what literature is, exploring not just novels, poetry and drama but also images and film, pamphlets, speeches, graphic novels, games and digital culture. This wide definition reflects the reality of how texts circulate an

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