English Literature (MA)

<div id="tab2" class="tab grid_8 alpha hide-on-small" style="display: block;"> <div class="courseLinks hide-on-medium-down"> <img src="/media/liverpoolhope/styleassets/cssimages/media,975,en.gif" alt="print Icon" style="width : 24px; height : 24px; "> <span><a href="javascript:window.print()">print this page</a></span> <span class="st_sharethis_custom" st_processed="yes"><a href="#">share this course</a></span> </div> <h2>Curriculum</h2> <p>The course consists of taught modules (including three compulsory modules) and a research dissertation. Assessment is through coursework, primarily in essay format. Full-time students normally attend two intensive classes each week, part-time students attend one class per week; these sessions are backed up by the time for wider reading, seminar preparation and assignment completion.</p> <h4>Core modules:</h4> <p>Book History: Archives and Material Cultures of Reading (30 credits)</p> <p>Literary Theory and Practice (15 credits)</p> <p>Advanced Masters Research in English Literature (compulsory - 15 credits)</p> <p>Research Dissertation (compulsory - 60 credits)</p> <h4>Indicative non-core modules:</h4> <p>The following is an indicative list of non-core modules, only some of which run each year:</p> <p>Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature</p> <p><a href="http://www.hope.ac.uk/media/liverpoolhope/contentassets/documents/postgraduateresearch/media,27647,en.pdf">The Rise of the Novel</a></p> <p>Case Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature</p> <p>Science Fiction</p> <p>The Art of the Graphic novel</p> <p>Fantasy and the Literature of the Fantastic</p> <p>American Modernism</p> <p>The Literature of the First World War</p> <p>Culture and Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Irish Literature</p> <p>New Literatures in English</p> </div>