Ma english literature: writing in the modern age english
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In London
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Postgraduate
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London
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Writing in the Modern Age examines how modernism and modern writing interact with politics, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, postcolonialism, and critical theory.
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Please note for 2019/20 entry
Our MA English Programmes are currently undergoing a review to ensure the content continues to offer an outstanding teaching and learning experience for our students.
Your programme will offer specially-designed core modules alongside the opportunity to choose from a range of electives in specialist areas.
This pathway offers a historically wide-ranging, theoretically rigorous, and generically diverse grounding in twentieth-century literary culture. It examines modernism alongside non- and post-modernist writing, and situates all three in relation to politics, philosophy, and other artistic media of the twentieth century.
The pathway has a global outlook, asking how modernism may look from Cape Town, Dublin, or Kingstown, Jamaica, as well as from London, Paris or New York. It stresses the diversity of modern experience, and of literature striving to express the nature of ‘modernity’ itself.
The compulsory module, ‘Modernism and After’, tracks the central debates that run through modern writing and criticism. What is ‘modern’ and what comes after it? What counts as ‘art’? How have relations between ‘high’ and ‘low’ altered over time? How does writing relate to racial or gendered ‘otherness’? How has writing rethought the politics of freedom and containment? How does literature change with new recording and distribution formats? How can criticism deal with creativity? These questions open up the last 120 years or so of literary and cultural innovation, and frame the other modules you choose to take..
The Department of English has notable research and teaching strengths in the field of Modernist literature and culture, and is a leading centre of Modernist research in London and the UK
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- English
- Art
- Writing
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Please note for 2019/20 entry
Our MA English Programmes are currently undergoing a review to ensure the content continues to offer an outstanding teaching and learning experience for our students.
Your programme will offer specially-designed core modules alongside the opportunity to choose from a range of electives in specialist areas.
The MA in Writing in the Modern Age is currently available for one year full-time study, or two years part-time study.
You will study four assessed modules, and two non-assessed research training modules, before proceeding to the 15,000-word dissertation.
Assessed modules are taught in weekly two-hour seminars. The research-training module will involve visits to archives and galleries which may each take up an afternoon. The dissertation is supervised through sessions with a specially designated supervisor. In addition to the timetabled sessions, you will be asked to attend meetings with your adviser and course tutor. You will also need to undertake many hours of independent learning and research in order to progress at the required level. When coursework deadlines are approaching independent learning hours may need to increase significantly.
Full-timeYou will take four assessed modules (two in each semester) and two non-assessed research training modules (one in each semester) before proceeding to the 15,000-word dissertation.
Part-timeWe understand the need for flexibility for part-time students. Part-time students take one assessed module per semester, and take the two non-assessed research training modules in Semesters One and Two. You are encouraged to begin work on your dissertation at the end of the first year, and will submit it in August of your second year. Teaching is done during the day.
Compulsory modules- Modernism and After
- Resources for Research (non-assessed)
- Researching Modern Culture (non-assessed)
- Dissertation
You choose three modules (one of which may be from another School in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences or College of the University of London).
In 2017-2018 we hope to offer the following. If members of our specialist research staff win research funding it will mean that their module won’t run, so for that reason this list is indicative only.
- Benjamin and Adorno
- Cultural Legacies of the First World War
- Forms of Modernism
- Literature, Science and Technology
- Peripheral Modernities
- Queer Theory and Contemporary Fiction
- Reading the Middle East
- The State of the Novel
- Writing the East End
You may, subject to availability and the approval of the School, take one of your option modules from across a range offered by other Schools in the Humanities and Social Science Faculty, or from other Colleges of the University of London.
In addition to taught modules, we run a range of research seminars to which all MA students are invited. Some of these are linked to our interdisciplinary Research Centres, such as the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, the Centre for Religion and Literature in English and the Centre for the History of the Emotions. Others are collaborations with other institutions, such as the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar. With visiting speakers from across the world, these seminars are an opportunity to meet other postgraduate students and members of staff and to learn about the latest developments in research.
Ma english literature: writing in the modern age english