MA English Literature

Leeds Beckett University

Explore your passion for English Literature and writing on this innovative course. You can specialise in either, or both, creative writing or literary studies. These three pathways bring together creative and critical approaches to literature in new and imaginative ways. You’ll examine current developments and critical issues on a course that provides an international and cross-cultural outlook. Taught by a team with an international reputation for their research in diverse areas, ranging from Caribbean culture to crime novels to apocalyptic fictions, this course will expose you to new ideas and will encourage you to question them. Across both shared and specialist modules and in undertaking a major project, you’ll develop skills of critical sophistication and argumentation and independence-of-mind, project development, and reflection. Literary Studies pathway Specialise in literary studies. On this pathway, you’ll: Explore the relationship between history and literary analysis Understand, apply and criticise key practical, contextual, conceptual and theoretical issues and debates in the analysis and creation of literary texts Reflect on and evaluate methodologies, drawing on a range of cultural, theoretical and practice-led reference points Creative Writing Pathway Study creative writing at an advanced level. On this pathway, you’ll: Expand and think critically about your own writing practice as a form of critical engagement or research Improve your understanding and mastery of the craft of creative writing Develop persuasive and sophisticated style both orally and in the written form English & Creative Writing pathway On this pathway, you’ll: Choose to study either the 'Literature & History 'or 'The Art of Creative Writing' modules.