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English Literature (MA)
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Objectives
The course aims to take you on to a role in research, the arts and the media, or employment requiring high-level skills in analysis or advanced subject knowledge.
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Entry requirements
Entry Requirements:
A first or Upper Second class Honours degree or equivalent. Suitable for graduates in English Literature and Humanities.
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Academic title
English Literature (MA)
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Course description
Course Description:
A dynamic, full-time one year programme with a choice of open and
specialist pathways, enabling you to put together the MA that best suits your personal and professional interests. Students take two courses per semester, each assessed by a 4,000-word essay. After Easter, students write a 16-20,000-word supervised dissertation.
Pathways:
-Advanced Studies in English Literature – the Open Pathway
-Editorial and Intertextual Studies
-Medieval Literature and its Afterlife
-Medieval and Renaissance Studies
-Shakespeare, Theatre and Theory
-19th Century Studies
-20th Century Studies
-Postcolonial Studies
-Literature, Theory and Culture
-Each pathway draws from a pool of options.
-The following lists are indicative:
Semester 1 options:
-Violent Death in Renaissance Drama
-Shakespearen comedy
-Chaucer, Dream literature and Sexual Debate
-British Romanticism
-Victorian Visual Cultures
-Modernisms
-White
-The Novel and the 19th Century
Semester 2 options:
-Constructing Shakespeare
-Shakespeare in Theoy
-Romantic Nations
-Gothic and Gender
-Credit and Commerce in the early C18th
-London and Literature in the C19th
-Welsh Fiction in English: Colonial and Postcolonial
-Psychoanalysis, Colonialism and Race
-Literature and Film after 9/11
-Tragic Love: The Cressida and Troilus Theme
-Constructing the Child: C19th Children’s Literature
-The Popular Novel in the Age of Austen
-In addition, students attend classes on research methods and scholarly presentation, as well as a critical reading group. These are unassessed but compulsory. There are opportunities to present papers and attend occasional weekend conferences.
Special Features:
-The opportunity to explore in depth a number of related specialist courses and modern critical ideas, while gaining experience in research methodology.
-There is a fortnightly reading group working on literary theory and texts.
-A highly successful programme that combines taught classes with research methodology and fosters specialist knowledge.
-Both a stand-alone degree and preparation for PhD study.
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