LO1 articulate coherent, detailed and sustained understanding of thematic and formal developments in poetry and prose fiction from 1940 to the most recent publications;
LO2 evaluate literary production in English in the period in terms of wider historical, cultural and political contexts and in terms of the qualities of the fictional world itself;
LO3 write sustained critical and/or creative responses to the thematic, formal and/or historical development of prose and poetry in the period 1940 to recent years;
LO4 develop and produce critically and creatively sophisticated work in response to research task.
