Integrated Masters - Master of Literature - Literature (Q391)

专业介绍

On this four-year MLitSt Literature, students will be part of an interdisciplinary department where literary critics work alongside practicing poets, dramatists, film-makers, novelists and journalists.

Students have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of optional modules across different topics and areas of specialization, including;

• Literatures of slavery and emancipation
• Themes of love, desire and death
• Identity, diversity and voice in United States literature
• Shakespeare’s tragedies
• Postcolonial literature
• Romantic, Gothic, naturalist, realist and sentimental writing
• 20th and 21st century literature
• Modernism, postmodernism, dystopias, and science fiction
• European, Caribbean and Transatlantic literature
• Poetic, contemporary, avant-garde and political writing

In the fourth year, as post-graduate students, they will be able to choose from the following masters level modules in literature and, if they wish, creative writing:

• Shakespeare and the Modern
• Research Methods in Literary and Cultural Analysis
• The Modern City: From Modernism to Postmodernism
• Caribbean Crossings: Literature across continents
• African American Literature
• Dramatic Structure
• Memory Maps
• Oulipo and the Avant Garde
• US Avant Garde poetry

At Essex, students can study modules which examine a variety of genres, including travel writing, the podcast, and autobiography among others, and work across different media, including books, newspapers, plays and film. Their modules not only span momentous historical, political and social worldwide events, but also examine the alternative worlds that literature has produced.

At Essex they believe in radical, challenging and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of literature and while they are respectful of conventions, they are not bound by them.

费用与学制

学制（月）

48

学费

21500.0 GBP

申请费

0.0 GBP