English - Contemporary Literature MA
The University of Northampton
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OVERVIEWThis exciting English – Contemporary Literature MA course examines the role of contemporary literature in a number of different contexts. You will have the chance to explore a diverse range of texts, across varied modules, with the chance to explore a topic of your choice in specialist detail through your dissertation. You could study post-1945 classics, including late modernists like Samuel Beckett, as well as surveying the latest novels.On this Contemporary Literature MA, you may ...Read more

OVERVIEW

This exciting English – Contemporary Literature MA course examines the role of contemporary literature in a number of different contexts. You will have the chance to explore a diverse range of texts, across varied modules, with the chance to explore a topic of your choice in specialist detail through your dissertation. You could study post-1945 classics, including late modernists like Samuel Beckett, as well as surveying the latest novels.

On this Contemporary Literature MA, you may explore specialist fields such as trauma fiction or gender and sexuality, master the latest literary theories, or investigate new genres and popular narrative media, including contemporary gothic literature, film, video games and comic books.

Course Details

The English – Contemporary Literature MA programme is built to encourage you to not only examine the contemporary moment – our time, our culture – in isolation, but to use contemporary literature as a window to broader concerns: literary traditions and heritage, politics and society, personal identity and representation.

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50/101
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28 Feb 24

I really like the campus, but I find it difficult to engage with the..Read more

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02 Feb 24

It's a great place to study, the campus is up-to-date and designed around seminar learning. I've found that the SU is hard to keep up with, as they update on Instagram and I'm not..Read more

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Entry requirements

To apply for the MA in English (Contemporary Literature) we normally ask that you have a Bachelor’s degree in English, or a related discipline, at 2:1 or higher. Applications with alternative qualifications or experience and from overseas students are welcomed and will be assessed in accordance with the University’s Admissions Policy and Academic Regulations.

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£8,250 per year

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£16,995 per year

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