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.
• Entry requirements
  Entry Requirements:
  A first or Upper Second class Honours degree or equivalent. Suitable for graduates in English Literature and Humanities.
• Academic title
  English Literature (MA)
• 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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