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Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3021
Module code: EN3021 From the earliest writings about the Americas, to slave narratives, to the form of the open/viral letter on social media, American writing has often taken the form of protest literature that sought to move readers to action in ingenious and sometimes...
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Critical Perspectives 2
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en2360
Module code: EN2360 (double module) The module will introduce you to a range of theoretical debates which have influenced the study of English in recent decades, covering issues such as reading and authorship, gender and sexuality, identity and selfhood, class and race,...
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Classic American Writing
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en1002
Module code: EN1002 This module is intended to introduce you to some of the distinctive characteristics of American literature by the detailed study of works that emerged from the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War in 1861, the period of the so-called American...
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Critical Perspectives 2
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en2360
Module code: EN2360 (double module) The module will introduce you to a range of theoretical debates which have influenced the study of English in recent decades, covering issues such as reading and authorship, gender and sexuality, identity and selfhood, class and race,...
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Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3021
Module code: EN3021 From the earliest writings about the Americas, to slave narratives, to the form of the open/viral letter on social media, American writing has often taken the form of protest literature that sought to move readers to action in ingenious and sometimes...
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Old Haunts: The Ghost Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en7242
Module code: EN7242 Following the Reformation, the boundary between living and dead was abruptly redrawn. With the simplification of funerary rites, and the abolition of purgatory as ‘a fonde thing’, the old medieval channels of communication were swiftly severed.
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Classic American Writing
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en1002
Module code: EN1002 This module is intended to introduce you to some of the distinctive characteristics of American literature by the detailed study of works that emerged from the turbulent period leading up to the Civil War in 1861, the period of the so-called American...
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Universitys Attenborough Arts Centre to take part in Leicester Comedy Festival this February
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/university2019s-attenborough-arts-centre-to-take-part-in-leicester-comedy-festival-this-february
The University’ Attenborough Arts Centre will take part in Leicester Comedy Festival this February to host 18 new shows by local favourites and new emerging comedians.
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Eighteenth-Century Literature from Restoration to Revolution
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en2350
Module code: EN2350 (double module) On this module we will explore the satire and comedy written under Charles II through to the vogue for sensibility at the end of the eighteenth century. In this period, print became truly popular.
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Trainee medics take first aid skills to the streets
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/trainee-medics-take-first-aid-skills-to-the-streets
A group of 15 medical students from our University working as the Leicester branch of national charity StreetDoctors is set to expand its already successful first aid training and education initiatives over the coming months.