Reading & Writing

What makes our study of literature unique is that it is intertwined with the use of our own products: 

LEX and our innovative tactics centred on Close Reading. We offer a wide, contextual analysis of the history, societal & political settings of when the works were written which allows our students to immediately put ideas in context and accurately pinpoint what the Great Works of Literature consist of. 

This course details a Reading List featuring the major works all university students need to have read.

• The carefully crafted syllabus consists of 30 Book Analyses fully equipped with:

• A vocabulary list consisting of words from the books themselves.

• A full discussion of the main themes, ideas, and literary devices.

• A contextual analysis of the books covering a rich delineation of the socio-historical time frames.

• Fully equipped with the tools of Textual Analysis and Close Reading.

• Dante:  A detailed analysis of the Divine Comedy.
• Shakespeare: A detailed study of the: The Sonnets (Shakespearean poetry) 
• 18 and 19 Century British Literature
• 20th century British Literature
• 19th century American Literature
• 20th century American Literature
• European 18th & 19th century Literature
• 20th century European Literature:  ​
• South African 20th century - Nobel Prize Winners: Full history of South Africa, Complete discussion of literary topics, A list of 1500 words extracted from the works of the two Nobel prize winner.
• Tragedies
• Comedies
• Survey Literature
• Greek & Roman Literature 
• The Renaissance 
• Literary Criticism