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Study Details: 12 months full-time; 24 months part‑time
Guided by a team of internationally recognised experts, you will investigate the key texts and concepts that shape our understanding of literature and culture across a period of radical change from 1880 to the present. You will relate the literary texts you study to developments in other cultural practices, such as film, theatre and the visual arts.
2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in any subject.
A 2.2 Honours degree will be considered where supported by relevant experience. Substantial, directly relevant experience may be considered in place of formal qualifications.
Modernities has been producing successful graduates for over 15 years and provides excellent preparation for PhD study and an academic career, as well as developing key skills valued by employers in journalism, the heritage and creative industries, and other related educational and vocational careers.
Semester 1:
English Literature Research Training Course
Modernities I:1880-1945
One option course
Semester 2:
Modernities 2: 1945 to the present
Two option courses
Summer:
Modernities Dissertation
Option courses:
African Modernities: Colonialism and Postcolonialism in the Novel
Decadence And The Modern
The American Counterculture, 1945-75
Contemporary Realisms
Fantasies of Energy (PGT)
Modern Everyday
The Mind of the Contemporary American Novel
Virginia Woolf Writes Modernity
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Dialogues of American Literary Modernism
Futures: Unbundling the Now
The Tomorrow People: Speculative Bodies and Minds in Contemporary Culture
Psychoanalysis and Empire
Raw Material: Literature, Empires, Commodities (PGT)
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