MA English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century and Contemporary)

Year 1

Semester OneCore [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

ENGL6135Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Dissertation

ENGL6131Credit[?]

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Approaches to the Long Twentieth Century (1914-Present)

ENGL6132Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Adventures in Literary Research

ENGL6116Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Writing for Children and Young People

ENGL6117Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Art and Craft of Fiction Part I

ENGL6133Credit[?]

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Shakespeare and his World

ENGL6128Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Special Project (Text, Culture, Theory)

Literature and Law: This special project examines the interface between literature and law in the following key ways: through the representation of law within literature; the representation of law as literature; the use of literature in law; and laws relating to literature. It will examine a range of literary and legal texts from the nineteenth century to the present.

ENGL6126Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Special Project (Text, Context, Intertext)

Eighteenth Century Fiction: This special project invites you to explore the place of the novel in eighteenth-century culture, and to assess contemporary critical debates on the subject. While some critics have explored the early contexts of fiction writing in the late seventeenth century, the uncertain position of fiction between truth and lies, and the relationships between novel and romance, others have proffered Marxist re-readings of the traditional canon outlined by Ian Watt in The Rise of the Novel, turned to the vast number of non-canonical texts in order to raise questions of literary value, femininity and sexuality, or focussed upon fiction as a central act of cultural production. Taking a small number of texts central to these debates, this special project offers the opportunity to explore some of the issues raised.

HUMA6012Credit[?]

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Jerusalem: City and Symbol

HIST6103Credit[?]

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Jews and Non-Jews: relations from antiquity to modernity

HIST6093Credit[?]

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Jewish Society and Culture in Eastern Europe

HIST6123Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

New Approaches to American History

Semester TwoCore [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

ENGL6135Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Dissertation

ENGL6115Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Scriptwriting

ENGL6118Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Art and Craft of Fiction Part II

ENGL6124Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Sweatshops, Sexworkers, and Asylum Seekers: World Literature and Visual Culture after Globalisation

ENGL6127Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Special Project (Text, Context, Intertext)

Modernisms and Modernities: This special project module aims to provide a cultural history of the dynamic relationship between modernism and modernity in the early twentieth century. It focuses on the political, social, philosophical and technological dimensions of modernity, and the impact that this had on cultural and artistic expression from the Imagists through to Beckett. The course will also introduce you to current debates in modernist studies; indicative topics include the body and technology in modernist literature, the audience and market for modernism, the modernist city, and the importance of interdisciplinary practices in modernist culture.

Unknown Jane Austen: Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated English writers today, but was largely unknown in her time. This special project module invites you to explore various facets of this ‘unknown’ Jane Austen by examining Austen’s literary culture, pursuing the tributaries of her imagination and technique, and looking again at some of the texts that mattered most to her, the better to assess the balance of emulation and innovation in her novels.

ENGL6129Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Special Project (Text, Culture, Theory)

Race and Literature: This special project module traces the conceptual trajectory between social Darwinist theories of race and the post-modern refutation of the ‘illusions of race’ by examining how racialised bodies and identities are represented in a range of literary texts in which they linked to various other social constructs and institutions – including slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, Empire and its legacies. Comte de Gobineau’s theories about the inequality of races will be allowed to be interrogated by the narrative of a female slave, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ground-breaking notion of double consciousness will be placed alongside Bildungsromane from both Harlem and the Caribbean, and ideas related to ethnic hybridity and silencing related to narratives of colonial India and postcolonial Australia. We will discuss the interface between race, culture and religion, and there will be sessions on multiculturalism and the framing of Muslims, migrants and asylum seekers in the recent ‘war on terror’.

Victorian Readers and the Politics of Print: Beginning with the frequently proposed shift from intensive to extensive modes of reading in the 18th century, the module will consider the varied effects on Victorian reading communities of compulsory education, secularisation, social migration and new technologies, examine the complex ways in which print and the politics of taste intersected with Marxist and ‘New Woman’ ideals, and consider the very different ways in which British literature circulated in colonial contexts in this period.

HUMA6015Credit[?]

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Narrative Non-Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Art

HIST6084Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The Holocaust, Englishness and Americanness

HIST6116Credit[?]

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Nehru’s India: Nationalism, Difference and the Path to Development (1930-1963)

HIST6121Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Digital Frontiers: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1967 – present

HIST6122Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Terrorists vs. Counterterrorists: Past, present and future policy