Keele University Prospectus Postgraduate | 2016 | Page 37
Overview
The MA in English Literatures
provides a structured learning
environment and a wide choice of
modules, including core modules
and elective modules drawn from
research led teaching.
You will benefit from expert
dissertation supervision in a wide
variety of English and American
literary topics. You will also
have the full research training
programme offered as part of the
MRes Humanities.
Additional information
The master’s programme aims
to enable you to:
• Engage in wide and varied
reading among the regional
and global varieties of literature
and literary criticism
• Think both critically and
creatively about literature
in English
• Assess the form and meaning
of literary and filmic texts
• Develop your understanding
of the characteristics of key
literary genres (prose fiction,
poetry, and drama) and
periods (post 1500) and of the
principles of canonisation that
elevate and marginalise texts
and their authors
Module titles
Key Information
Course type
The following is a list of indicative
elective modules:
MA
• Research Skills in
the Humanities
Full-time or part-time
• Reflective Practice in
the Humanities
• Criticism, Analysis, Theory
• Canon, Anti-Canon, Context
• Postcolonial and World
Literature in English
• (Victorian) Culture
and Context
• James Joyce’s Ulysses
• Shakespearean Stages:
Advanced Studies in
Shakespeare and his
Contemporaries
HUMANITIES
English Literatures
Mode of study
Entry
requirements
Applicants typically
require an upper
second-class honours
degree (2.1 or above) or
an overseas equivalent,
in English Literature.
Contact email
postgraduate.
[email protected]
• Romantic Voices
• The Canadian Metropolis
• Wild Woods and Wide
Worlds: British and American
Children’s Fiction
• Contemporary
American Fiction
• Words and Pictures:
The American Graphic Novel
• Dissertation
• Understand, evaluate and
apply to literary texts a range
of critical ideas and theories
relevant to textual criticism
• Communicate ideas and
arguments with clarity and care
in a number of different forms
• Work both constructively
and critically, by yourself and
as part of a team, to deliver
specific projects
• Develop research skills
commensurate with
postgraduate study in the field
of English literary studies
www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses/englishliteratures
Good to know
Students on the MA
in English Literatures
are taught in small
groups by dedicated
and enthusiastic
staff all of whom
are experts in their
research areas.
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