English Literature

About this course

English literature is the study of how writers have used language to create meaning, record experience and explore what it means to be human. It takes seriously the idea that stories, poems and plays are not merely entertainment but ways of thinking, forms of argument and records of how people in different times and places have understood the world and themselves. At the University of Huddersfield, this three-year full-time programme approaches literature with that seriousness, developing your ability to read attentively, think critically and write with clarity and precision. You will engage with texts across a range of periods, genres and traditions, from earlier literature through to contemporary writing, developing a broad literary knowledge alongside the close reading and analytical skills that this discipline cultivates. You will encounter literary theory and criticism, think about

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