Level 4
Level 4 courses in English extend your knowledge of specialised areas of literature and language, focussing on a particular period, writer, genre or topic. Teaching is through twice-weekly seminars.
On these pages you will find detailed information about the content of Level 4 courses.
All course choices should be made in consultation with your adviser of studies.
Level 4 Courses for 2011-12
- EL40AO Writing the City 1550-1630
- EL40CA Controversy And Drama: The Plays Of Christopher Marlowe
- EL40DK Lives of Girls and Women: The Forms of Twentieth-Century Women's Fiction
- EL40EN 'Mirrors more than one': Spenser's Images of Elizabeth
- EL40HP Literature and Medicine
- EL40IN Burns
- EL40KB Local Horror: The New Scottish Gothic
- EL40LQ Language, Power, People and Nation
- EL40NA Methods and Practise in Language Variation and Change
- EL40QR Walter Scott and the Development of the Novel
- EL40XR Transformations of Romance
- EL40xx Fictional Futures: Apocalypse and Utopia in British Literature, 1820-1935
- EL40ZA Laughter and the Irish Comic Tradition
- EL40ZL Auden In The 1930s: Landscape, Violence And Desire
- EL43AC The World Of Elizabeth Bowen
- EL43CM Paradise Lost
- EL43CN Human And Divine Passion: Early Modern Devotional Poetry
- EL43EP Fictional Places and the Place of Fiction in the Renaissance
- EL43KB Justified Sins: Twentieth-Century Scottish Fictions
- EL43HS Romantic Reveries
- EL43LS Language Contact and Change in Language
- EL43Nx Language in North America
- EL43QP Travelling Hopefully: The Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson
- EL43ZB Perverse Media: Samuel Beckett's Art of Failure
- EL4502 English Dissertation
- EL4503 Dissertation in Language and Linguistics
- EL45AQ Heroes And Villains: Writing Lives In The Renaissance 1520-1640
- EL45BL Frankenstein to Einstein: Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century
- EL45GR Fin-De-Siecle Literature And Psychology: Self, City And Empire
- EL45OP The Sagas of Icelanders: The Colonial Literature of Medieval Iceland
- EL45TG Creative Writing 1
- EL45UN An Elephant in the Kitchen: Contemporary Northern Irish Fiction
- EL45VP Language and the Professions
- EL48BN The Gilded Age: American Literature 1880-1925
- EL48HC Neo-Victorian Transformations
- EL48OX Beowulf and Old English
- EL48TG Creative Writing 2
- EL48UR Representations of Violence: Putting the 'Art' Back into Atrocity
- EL48YB Kingdom of the Mad: Self and Place in 20th Century American Poetry
Past Exam Papers
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