English: Literature, Culture and Theory MA
Master
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
1 Year
Combine specialist study, theoretical inquiry and interdisciplinary investigations to explore literature, culture and history.
Our MA allows you to focus your study on a specific period or concept, or to engage broadly with ideas across a wide historic range. The diverse research interests of the School of English will ensure you're supported in shaping your course to your particular interests.
We’ll help you to engage with theoretical ideas and conceptual methods that underpin research in literature. You’ll graduate equipped with the skills necessary for further study inside and outside academia.
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About this course
Our graduates have gone on to careers in:
teaching and education
publishing
website production and marketing
journalism and writing
the charity sector
NGOs.
You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.
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Subjects
- English
- Teaching
- Options
- Dissertation
- Analysis
- Research
- Practical
- Professional
- Literature
- American Novel
Course programme
These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
- Dissertation (English MA programmes)
- Interpretation, Theory, and Research Methods in Literary Study
Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests.
- Capital and Poetics
- Capital and Poetics
- Image and Text 1780-1880
- ImagiNation: The Great American Novel
- ImagiNation: The Great American Novel
- International Modernisms, 1840-Present
- International Modernisms, 1840-Present
- Literature and Society, 1750-1890
- Literature and Society, 1750-1890
- New Configurations in Critical Theory
- New Configurations in Critical Theory
- Spectacular Imaginings: Renaissance Drama and the Stage 1580-1640
- Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature
- Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature
- The Migrant Writer: Postcolonialism and Creativity
- The Migrant Writer: Postcolonialism and Creativity
- The Renaissance Body
- The Renaissance Body
- Theory in Practice: Readings in Contemporary Theory and Literature
- Theory in Practice: Readings in Contemporary Theory and Literature
- Voices in the Archives: Writing from History
- Voices in the Archives: Writing from History
Additional information
English: Literature, Culture and Theory MA