English at York 2022

Yeah I deffo like the Catholic side more and that’s so cool! I did mine on Greek Mythology compared to modern and historic literature. I did an artefact so I wrote my own novel !

Yes the Henry VIII one is timeless . I love the king George’s one too hahah

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Original post by Afrs13

Omg no way, I didn't realise you could write your own novel if you did an artefact, I defo would have done that as I have written a novel for fun already lol !! I did a dissertation. Yesss 'born to rule over you'

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Yeah I did a novel, glossary to go with it, I painted my own illustrations and then I did a report and presentation to go with !

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Original post by Afrs13

Yeah I did a novel, glossary to go with it, I painted my own illustrations and then I did a report and presentation to go with !

Awww that’s so cool omg I wish I had done that!! Well done on your creativity :smile:

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Thank you hahah I just feel good that I’ve got it out my way now and I can completely focus on my a levels. What board is your english Literature? Mine is OCR

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Original post by Afrs13

Thank you hahah I just feel good that I’ve got it out my way now and I can completely focus on my a levels. What board is your english Literature? Mine is OCR

Yesss I did my EPQ last year so I was so pleased to finish as well!! My English lit exam board is OCR as well - what texts do you do?

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Original post by hamlethoratio

Such a relief to finish it haha, did you do an English lit related one? 100% will be doing the Austen module and cannot wait to do Approaches to Literature I too as it's stuff like Virginia Woolf and Mary Shelley 😍

Yeah I did! You?

And yesss exactly this is why though I don't quite know what order of firm choices I'll end up with, York will definitely be on there.

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Original post by hamlethoratio

Yeah I like the Tudors more too, actually, haha! Plantagenets are massively up there for me though - esp the powerful women in that era and the wars of the roses

My faves are Henry VIII's reign and Mary I's reign :smile:

not an Anne Boleyn or Elizabeth I fan though, don't hate me!! More interested in Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII's sister Mary Tudor, Queen of France

This is why history and English joint at York is perfect for me lol

Even from an English POV historical women are so fun (I also do history) because it's like... the same presentations as literature half the time in history. I always find the war of the roses women quite interesting, sadly not technically my area of study.

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So we do Hamlet A and B question then we do Duchess of Malfi and Paradise Lost comparison and on the second paper we do dystopian unseen and Handmaid’s tale and 1984 comparison and then 2 pieces of coursework wbu?

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Original post by Afrs13

Yes, Hamlet as well and then we compare Paradise Lost and A Doll’s House for rest of paper 1. Then on paper 2 we do an American Literature unseen and compare The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath! We have 3 texts for coursework but one is poetry and really short

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Original post by isometimesread

Yeah I did! Evil women in literature. You?

And yesss exactly this is why though I don't quite know what order of firm choices I'll end up with, York will definitely be on there.

I didn’t actually do a literature one! As I’ve applied for history and english, I did a history one - I did it on Mary I. Yep I am waiting to hear back on one offer but if I get rejected then I think that I will firm York, but if not, it’ll probably be my insurance but who knows?

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Original post by isometimesread

Yep that’s kinda why I wanted to do a joint History and English degree! I love Plantagenet women and Tudor women - it’s my favourite part of history, even if it’s not your area of study, it’s still interesting! Idk if you’ve read Philippa Gregory’s novels about the women of the wars of the roses but they’re so good! They are quite inaccurate in some places but still entertaining :smile:

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I love Hamlet the most out of the course Shakespeare is just genius. For coursework we do Phillip Larkin poetry and then the other coursework we compare a play and a novel with one of the themes available

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Original post by Afrs13

Yep same - you can probably tell from my username that I’m a massive Hamlet fan haha!! Oh right we did Sylvia Plath poetry (loved it) and then do novel and play for theme as well :smile:

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Anonymous #1

1. What A-Levels do you do?
English Lit, French and Psychology

2. What are your achieved/predicted grades?
AAA

3. What’s your favourite type of literature? (E.g. prefer plays or novels)
Epic poems/poems in general + novels

4. What’s your favourite piece of literature? (E.g. the bell jar is your favourite book)
Well so far I’m reading Little Women and it’s got a lovely cosy/cute feeling to it of course. However I’m a huge Rossetti fan so any work by her has my heart (Goblin Market!!!!)

5. Why York?

It’s supposed to be amazing for English and of course I want to learn as much as possible.

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Original post by Anonymous

Omg I love Rossetti poetry too! A Better Resurrection is just beautifully tragic.

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Original post by hamlethoratio

Do you choose your coursework? What is it you're doing? History as well

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Original post by isometimesread

Do you choose your coursework? What is it you're doing? History as well

Nope I didn’t get to choose! For english lit we do Plath poetry, Atonement, and Arcadia

Then for history we do modern Russia

Wbu

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