您将受益于我们在美国，爱尔兰和后殖民文学，批判理论，创意写作以及文学与其他艺术，媒体和科学之间的关系等广泛领域的专业知识，将探索英语文学的各个方面。在格拉斯哥的英国文学，您将在世界上最古老，最大，最活跃的文学研究中心之一学习。
You will explore all aspects of literature in English, benefiting from our expertise in a wide range of areas, including American, Irish and postcolonial literatures, critical theory, creative writing, and the relationship between literature and other arts, media and science. In choosing English Literature, you will be studying at one of the oldest, largest and most dynamic centres for the study of literature in the world. Level 1 courses in English Literature will provide you with the knowledge and critical and creative skills that form the bedrock for the study of English Literature. You will develop skills in independent writing and in analysing and arguing about literature, and gain insights into how speaking and performing texts enhances literary study. Poetry and Poetics introduces you to the study of poetry, of what has been written about it, and how it is performed and reproduced. Prescribed texts include anthologies of poetry and literary criticism, one play, and a handbook on studying poetry. The course includes a poetry writing competition and an open mic forum. Novel and Narratology addresses the novel form in English and theories of narrative and its cultural effects. There are also opportunities to develop skills in creative writing.<br><br>In second year you will build on your reading and analytical skills, examining the relationship between literary texts and their historical, cultural and political contexts (Writing and ideology), and their formal features and techniques (Writing and text). You will be reading and writing on novels, short stories, tales, poems, plays, essays and manifestos from the medieval period. If you progress to Honours (years 3 and 4) you will have scope for advanced study of the major literary periods, as well as the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of courses in a number of specialist fields, including children's literature, fantasy fiction, the contemporary novel, modernism, radical theory, Shakespeare, literature and the environment, literature and medicine.