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| Application Deadline: | 1 August | ||
| Location: | Bristol / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Bristol
This MA is designed to develop and test your literary critical skills, to deepen and broaden your knowledge of English literature, and to allow you to participate in a research community.
Taught elements are concentrated in four areas: Medieval and Early Modern English Literature; Shakespeare and English Literature; Romanticism; and Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Optional taught units can also be chosen. You can choose units across the four main areas or designate one area as your 'pathway'. One pathway unit in the second semester may be replaced by the 'Half-Day Academic Conference Unit' for which you will present a paper at a half-day conference.
Contents
First Semester
* Introduction to Literary Research (core unit)
* Pathway Unit
Second Semester
* Pathway Unit
* Second Pathway Unit or Half-Day Academic Conference 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
Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
* Court and City 1
* Court and City 2
Shakespeare and English Literature
* Shakespeare and Literary Relations (semester 1)
* Hamlet: Text and Interpretation (semester 2)
* Intertextual Shakespeare (semester 2)
Romanticism
* Romantic Poetry and Poetics (semester 1)
* Romantic Genres, Language and Aesthetics (semester 2)
* Romanticism, History, Politics (semester 2)
Modern and Contemporary Poetry
* British Poetry: 1900-1945 (semester 1)
* British Poetry: 1945-Present (semester 2)
* Twentieth-Century American Poetry (semester 2)
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
* Thomas Hardy's Fictions
* Victorian Poetry: Doubt, Belief and Dissent
* Women and Writing
* Half-Day Academic Conference
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
Entry requirements
Normally an upper second-class or equivalent degree in English Literature, or sufficient proof of ability for the course.
Language requirements
An IELTS score of 7.0 in all bands. We also accept other language tests; please see our website for details.
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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