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Embrace your inner bookworm and step into the magical literary world of Shakespeare or French poetry with one of our literature courses.
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Take a journey through the literature of English country houses from the time of Thomas More to Oscar Wilde.
3 hrs per week
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Explore the influence of the Lake District on Wordsworth with this free online course, filmed at his home, Dove Cottage, Grasmere.
4 hrs per week
Explore the important roles that books have played in the cultural history of Japan.
Get underneath the skin of a novel by understanding some of the main building blocks of modern fiction.
2 hrs per week
Discover medieval Ireland using the Book of Kells, a ninth-century manuscript featuring the four gospels of the new testament.
Demystify renowned Shakespeare myths and get introduced to corpus-based methods for analysing his use of language in context.
Explore the history of the book during the early modern period and learn how the invention of printing revolutionized our world.
Learn how picturebooks use a combination of images and text to depict social issues and reflect attitudes to languages.
Discover what poetry can tell us about human emotion and learn key ideas and techniques for understanding and interpreting verse.
Gain insights into political speeches, beautiful poetry, and everything in between as you take a deep dive into stylistics.
Learn how to read poetry in French, developing a poetry toolkit to better understand poetic language, poetic form, tone, and more.
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