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| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Queen Mary, University of London
The MA in English Literature invites students to reflect on some crucial questions. How have ideas about literature and literary value changed over time? What effects do innovations in printing and publishing have on writing? To what extent do political and social factors condition and define authorial identities and practices? The programme considers the relationship between literatures from a variety of historical periods. It is ideal both for those who intend to pursue doctoral research – particularly if your interests span traditional literary periods – and for those who wish to achieve a broad overview of Anglophone literary culture.
The MA in English Literature provides both structure and flexibility, combining a specially-designed core module with the opportunity to select further options from across the whole range of MA modules on offer in the Department of English.
Contents
You will also choose three modules – one in the first semester, and two in the second – from across the range of MA modules offered by the Department of English, and write a dissertation.
Module options may include:
* Aestheticism and Fin-de-Siècle Literature
* Benjamin and Adorno
* The Cultural Legacies of the Great War
* Freud and Proust
* Imagining the Modern Caribbean
* Metro-Intellectuals: Women Writing in the City, 1780–1824
* Modernism, Aesthetics and Politics
* Modernism and Ireland
* Modernism, Secularism and Religion
* Notions of Progress and Civilisation
* Postcolonialism, Language and identity
* Private and Public Cultures in Renaissance England
* Psychoanalysis and Modern Culture
* Reading Shakespeare Historically
* Renaissance in Context
* Rhetorical Cultures in the EighteenthCentury
* Romantic Manifestos
* Sociability: Literature and the City, 1660-1780
* Time and Historical Imagination
* Urban Culture and the Book: London, Publishing and Readers in the Sixteenth Century
* Writing the East End
Assessment Coursework (67 per cent)
Assessment for each module is a 4,000-word essay.
Dissertation (33 per cent)
A dissertation of 12,000-15,000 words.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Most applicants will have an undergraduate degree with First or Upper Second Class Honours (or the equivalent) in English or such related fields as History, Cultural Studies and Media Studies. Where a North American marking scheme is used, applicants should have a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.3.
Promising applicants who do not meet the formal academic criteria but who possess relevant credentials and who can demonstrate their ability to produce written work at Master´s level will also be considered. Applicants may be invited to interview or asked to submit examples of written and/or creative work. We welcome applications from mature and nontraditional students.
English language entry
* IELTS 6.5
* TOEFL 580
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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