About the course This course offers an introduction to the study of the three major branches of English Literature: prose faction, poetry and drama. We will consider use of language, style, imagery, characterisation, the role of the narrator and social contexts. There will be a strong emphasis upon intertextuality. This means relationships between different texts.

Tutor Julia Larden - BA (Open), BA English (University of Birmingham), MA English and Women’s Studies (University of Lancaster).
I have been teaching adults since 1982 and teach both English Literature and Film Studies. On the English Literature side I have taught numerous nineteenth and twentieth century novel courses and Poetry and Drama courses. Other areas of interest include Shakespeare, Women Writers, Frankenstein and Pygmalion narratives. In the area of Film, I have taught courses in the History of Film from its beginnings in 1995, courses on Women in Film and new Wave Film.
I always find it exciting to send someone new, who obviously has the right ability, into Higher Education and I hope to be able to continue to do this for many years to come. 

Spring topics * Key techniques of poetry
* Romanticism and Nature and the early romantic poets – Wordsworth and Coleridge
* Later Romantic poets, Keats and Shelley
* Contextualisation of the poetry of the First World War
* The work Wilfred Owen, Owen and the Romantics
* The poetry of Isaac Rosenberg and Rupert Brooke and the Romantics
* The 'nurse poets' - three key women poets and their romantic influences

Summer topics * The Shakespearian stage and the language of Shakespeare
* The Winter’s Tale
* George Bernard Shaw
* The new British drama
* George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion; the myth of Pygmalion and intertextuality between Pygmalion and The Winter's Tale