MA English Literary Studies

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University of Exeter
  • Opportunity to develop specialist research interests via nine flexible ‘pathways’
  • Develop an enhanced understanding of literature and media in their historical and cultural contexts, and foster your communication and analytical skills
  • Ideal for students wishing to extend and enhance their studies before starting their career and work with the department’s internationally recognised Research Centres and Groups
  • Specifically designed for those seeking high level training prior to embarking on doctoral research
  • Excellent facilities on campus include our Special Collections featuring the papers of internationally important writers, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum which is a unique film and popular culture resource and our Digital Humanities Lab. Exeter has also recently been awarded UNESCO City of Literature status
  • Opportunity to develop specialist research interests via nine flexible ‘pathways’
  • Develop an enhanced understanding of literature and media in their historical and cultural contexts, and foster your communication and analytical skills
  • Ideal for students wishing to extend and enhance their studies before starting their career and work with the department’s internationally recognised Research Centres and Groups
  • Specifically designed for those seeking high level training prior to embarking on doctoral research
  • Excellent facilities on campus include our Special Collections featuring the papers of internationally important writers, The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum which is a unique film and popular culture resource and our Digital Humanities Lab. Exeter has also recently been awarded UNESCO City of Literature status
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Modules

  • Dissertation
  • Sense, Sensation and Cinema
  • Archival Encounters: Material Film Histories
  • Making Progress? Literature in a Changing Environment
  • The Cultures of American Modernism
  • Criticism and Theory: Current Debates
  • Revival and Return: Using the Past from Pope to Keats
  • Modernism and Material Culture
  • Renaissance Space
  • Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Material Culture
  • Publishing and Power: Black and Asian Literary Networks in the UK
  • Writing Women in the English Middle Ages
  • Latin American Cinema: Race, Nation and Representation
  • World Literature and Postcolonial Studies
  • Hearing Film: Film Sound and Music
  • Bodies Politic: Cultural and Sexual Politics in England, 1603-1679
  • Empire, Decadence and Modernity: Literature 1870-1910
  • Criticism and Theory: Critical and Literary Theory in a Global Context
  • The Body and Identity
  • The Literature of Cold War America
  • World Cinema / World Literature
  • Expanding Queerness: Critical Debates in Theory, Literature, Film and Television
  • Crossing Medieval Boundaries
  • Romanticism and the Politics of Exclusion
  • Game On
  • The Poetry of Events - Building a Plot
  • Writing Nature: Ecology, Place, Memoir (Creative Writing)
  • Prose Writing Workshop
  • Publishing and Power: Black and Asian Literary Networks in the UK
  • Writing for the Planet: Creative Writing as Activism in a Time of Climate Change and Ecological Decline
  • Writing for the Screen
  • The Structures of Realism
  • Image, Shape and Music
  • Prose Writing Workshop
  • Game On
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    £24,300 Per Year

    International student tuition fee

    1 Year

    Duration

    Sep 2024

    Start Month

    Aug 2024

    Application Deadline

    Upcoming Intakes

    • September 2024
    • September 2025
    • September 2026

    Mode of Study

    • Full Time
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