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Study Details: 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time
This pathway of the MA Literary Studies will centre on the study of the theory and practice of comparative and world literature.
Discuss the history, main concepts, and debates on world literature and comparative literary criticism while analysing a wide range of texts from different periods and media, and from diverse cultural, geographic, and linguistic backgrounds.
Pursue your wider interests thanks to a flexible structure by studying three options from the varied and unique provision of the department. At least one of these options must be in an area that is directly relevant to comparative and world literary studies. Options range across American, Black British, Caribbean, contemporary, modern, postcolonial, Romantic and Victorian literature, literary and critical theory, linguistics and translation studies.
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject.
You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.
Although the ability to read in another language will be useful, it is not compulsory. All texts will be studied in English, in English translation, or with English subtitles.
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Module title
Literature in the World: Encounters, Comparison, Reception 30 credits
You also take three options from the selection below, in addition to the compulsory module and dissertation.
Module title
Introduction to Modern and Contemporary American Literature and Culture 30 credits
Nineteenth-Century Literature: Romanticisms 30 credits
Modern and Contemporary Literary Movements 30 credits
Literature of the Caribbean & its Diasporas 30 credits
Theories of Literature & Culture 30 credits
Historicising the Field of Black British Writing: From the Romans to the Present 30 credits
American Science Fiction: 1950 Onwards 30 credits
The Contemporary American Novel in the Era of Climate Change 30 credits
Contemporary Indigenous Literatures: Place, Politics and Identity 30 credits
Interculturality, Text, Poetics 30 credits
Modern and Contemporary Women’s Writing: 1920s To Present 30 credits
Genre and Aesthetics: Contemporary Black British Writing 30 credits
Postmodern Fiction 30 credits
Literature and Philosophy 30 credits
European Decadence and the Visual Arts 30 credits
You can also choose options from a range of Linguistics and Translation modules.
Module title
Discourse and Identity in Spoken Interaction 30 credits
Thinking Translation: Introduction to Translation Theory 30 credits
Decolonising English Language Teaching 30 credits
Language in its Sociocultural Context 30 credits
Intercultural Discourse & Communication 30 credits
Core Issues in English Language & Linguistics 30 credits
English in a Multilingual World 30 credits
Language & Ideology in Written Discourse 30 credits
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