Master

In Bristol

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Duration

    2 Years

To develop and test students advanced literary critical skills, to deepen and broaden their knowledge, and to allow them to participate in, and understand the various demands of, a research community.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bristol (Avon)
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Faculty Of Arts, University Of Bristol, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB

Start date

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About this course

Normally an upper second-class or equivalent degree in English Literature, or sufficient proof of ability for the course.
IELTS score: 7.0 in all bands

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Course programme

MA in English Literature

Mode:
part-time

The taught elements are concentrated in four areas: Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature; Shakespeare and English Literature; Romanticism; and Modern and Contemporary Poetry. A range of optional taught units can be chosen outside of these areas. You can choose units across the four main areas or designate one area as your 'pathway'. This will give you the opportunity to present a paper at a half-day conference.

Programme Structure

First Semester

  • Introduction to Literary Research (core unit)
  • Pathway Unit

Second Semester

  • Pathway Unit
  • Second Pathway Unit or Optional Unit
  • Half-day Academic Conference Unit or Third Pathway Unit or Optional Unit

Dissertation
Following successful completion of the taught course, you must complete a dissertation of 15,000 words maximum.

Pathways
Available units will vary from year to year

Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature

  • Court and City: Late Medieval English Literary Responses
  • Court and City: Early Modern English Literary Responses

Shakespeare and English Literature

  • Hamlet: Text and Interpretation
  • Intertextual Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare and Literary Relations

Romanticism

  • Romantic Genres, Language and Aesthetics
  • Romantic Poetry and Poetics
  • Romanticism, History, Politics

Modern and Contemporary Poetry

  • British Poetry: 1900-1945
  • British Poetry: 1945-Present
  • Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Optional Units

  • Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
  • Freud and Shakespeare
  • How Poets Work
  • Introduction to Old English
  • Literature and Medicine
  • Making It New: Classical Poetry in English
  • Medieval English Drama
  • Paradise Lost
  • Place in Victorian and Recent Fiction
  • Postcolonial Imaginings
  • Victorian Poetry: Doubt, Belief and Dissent

English Literature

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