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Study Details: MA 1 year full-time, 2 – 4 years part-time
This exciting course examines the role of contemporary literature in a number of different contexts. You will have the chance to explore a diverse range of texts, across varied modules, with the chance to explore a topic of your choice in specialist detail through your dissertation. You could study post-1945 classics, including late modernists like Samuel Beckett, as well as surveying the latest novels.
You may explore specialist fields such as trauma fiction or gender and sexuality, master the latest literary theories, or investigate new genres and popular narrative media, including contemporary gothic literature, film, video games and comic books.
Highlights
To apply for the MA in English (Contemporary Literature) we normally ask that you have a Bachelor’s degree in English, or a related discipline, at 2:1 or higher. Applications with alternative qualifications or experience and from overseas students are welcomed and will be assessed in accordance with the University’s Admissions Policy and Academic Regulations.
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Students who have studied with us have gone on to a variety of careers, including: teaching, adult education, journalism, theatre management, marketing, editorial work with major publishers, librarianship, arts administration, museum and curatorial work, librarianship, bookselling, social work training, management trainee schemes with large companies, local government.
Critical Theory and Methodologies (30 Credits) Module code: LITM033
Twenty-First Century Storytelling (30 Credits) Module code: LITM034
Contemporary British Gothic Module code: LITM035
Literary Modernism in a Postmodern World Module code: LITM036
Pulp Visions (30 Credits) Module code: LITM037
Gender, Sexuality & Writing the Body (30 Credits) Module code: LITM038
Brave New Worlds Module code: LITM039
Trauma Fiction Module code: LITM040
Literary Transmediations Module code: LITM041
Shakespeare our Contemporary: Text and Screen Module code: LITM042
Dissertation (60 Credits) Module code: LITM043
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