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Study Details: 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time
This pathway of the MA Literary Studies aims to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the literature that has sought to define or has emerged from ‘America’.
The legacies of settler colonialism; racialised inequality and violence; the social impacts of capitalism and industrialisation, urbanisation and technology; environmental catastrophe. These are the urgent issues facing America now, but which have been pre-occupying American literature since at least the nineteenth century. The project of democracy continues to be fraught, the notion of a common and coherent national identity and history continues to be contested, and American literature continues to find new ways and forms to offer social critiques, to express alternative social possibilities, and to reveal the many different “Americas” that belie the idea of nation. It is this literary scrutiny that energises the pathway in American literature and culture.
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.
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Graduates of this programme have gone on to pursue careers in:
You will study the following compulsory module, as well as writing a Dissertation (60 Credits)
Module title
Introduction to Modern and Contemporary American Literature and Culture 30 credits
You also take three options from the selection below, in addition to the compulsory module and dissertation.
Module title
Literature in the World: Encounters, Comparison, Reception 30 credits
Theories of Literature & Culture 30 credits
Modern and Contemporary Literary Movements 30 credits
Literature of the Caribbean & its Diasporas 30 credits
Nineteenth-Century Literature: Romanticisms 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.
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