Module and Essay Titles (and link)
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Student
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| Q32334 - Literature and Popular Culture |
| Compare the Representation of Femininity in Paradise Lost by John Milton and V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd |
Victoria Jane Lorriman
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33103 - Sociolinguistics |
| Locker-room talk: an exploration of gender discourse and constructed identities in Donald Trump’s presidential debate with Hillary Clinton |
Joseph Rodgers
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33109 - Introduction to English Language Teaching |
| Teaching German students functional language in speaking, through meaning-based activities |
Imogen Hibberd
BA (Hons) English
Kate Lindars
BA (Hons) English
Katie Prentice
BA (Joint Hons) English and German
Yingyue Zhu
BA (Hons) English Language and Literature
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| Q33115 - Creativity and Language |
| Communal creativity and continual re-onvention: a feminist reading of Caryl Churchill's Love and Information |
Imogen Lawson
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33125 - Advanced Stylistics |
| A stylistic analysis of transitivity processes and their effects in Ted Hughes’ ‘The Bee Meeting’ |
Sophie Swift
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33220 - English Place-Names |
| Examine the value of place-names as evidence for the history, landscape and, especially, language(s) of your chosen area |
Ruut Korpinen
Erasmus Exchange
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| Q33221 - The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons |
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| Monster versus Monstrous: a discussion of the characterisation of Grendel’s Mother |
Ela Wydrzynska
BA (Joint Hons) English and Latin
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| Q33226 - Dreaming the Middle Ages |
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| Discuss the importance of 'sound' and 'hearing' in Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame, William Dunbar's The Golden Targe, the anonymous Pearl, and James Stewart's The Kingis Quair |
Sophie Crowe
BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing
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| Q33227 - The Viking Mind |
| The importance of dreams in Icelandic Sagas: how saga writers use dreams to different effects in the historical sagas Laxdaela Saga and Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu, compared to the mythological saga Jómsvíkinga Saga |
Luke Watson
BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing
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| Q33391 - The Self and the World: Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century |
| What is the effect of Satanic allusion in Frankenstein? |
Victoria Lorriman
BA (Hons) English
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| Heroes and anti-heroes: masculine anxiety in the Romantic Period |
Felicity Chilver
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33395 - Making Something Happen: Twentieth Century Poetry and Politics |
| Holocaust Memorialisation in the Poetry of Michael Longley and Geoffrey Hill as a Construction of Continuum |
Hannie Phillips
BA (Hons) English with Creative Writing |
| Q33396 - Single Author Study |
An examination of how the British educational system shapes individuals’ lives in D. H. Lawrence’s novels The Rainbow and Women in Love
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Emma Putland
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33397 - Dark Futures, Tainted Pasts |
| How is the body used to characterise the dystopian female identity in the patriarchal societies of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve? |
Daniel Barkass-Williamson
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33398 - Reformation and Revolution: Early Modern literature and drama 1588-1688 |
| From Foreign Enemy to Great Unifying Leader: Performances of King James VI and I between 1599 and 1624 in the Works of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare |
Joshua Caldicott
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33503 - Theatre Making |
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Jacques Lecoq and States of Tension
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Laurence Cuthbert
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33519 - Performing the Nation: British Theatre since 1980 |
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In an era of globalization and localism, the idea of the nation feels anachronistic and limiting. How do your chosen plays and performances explore ideas of nation in these contemporary contexts, and to what effect?
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Evelyn Ambrose
BA (Hons) English |
| If the nation is always changing, so too is the relationship between theatre and nation |
Laura Bateman
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33520 - Performing Places: Theatre, Site, Space |
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‘A more active participation in both site and performance provides the opportunity to actually embody ‘site’. Audience members may rub up against other audience members, making the reading of the performance experiential in multiple ways, rather than limited to the end-on approach prescribed by many forms of theatre architecture’ Evaluate your experience of space in performance: what effects did the performance’s spatial practices create?
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Imogen Hibberd
BA (Hons) English |
| Q33604 - Songs and Sonnets: Lyric poetry from Medieval Manuscript to Shakespeare and Donne |
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‘The ‘I’ experiences both the negative state of not having something and the positive state of yearning for that thing at one and the same time: the two senses that the modern English usage of the word ‘want’ conveniently holds side by side’ [Catherine Bates]. Is loss the dominant feeling of lyric?
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Jonathan Garmeson
BA (Hons) English
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| Q33606 - Screen Shakespeares |
| Discuss how cinematic devices are used in order to chart the progressive psychological breakdown of the main protagonist |
Frances Hannon
BA (Hons) English |