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MA Comparative Literatures and Cultures

MA Comparative Literatures and Cultures

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Full time | University of Bristol | 1 year | SEP-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-25

Key information
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Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Cultural Studies Comparative Literature

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Overview

The MA in Comparative Literatures and Cultures gives you the opportunity to study the encounters and exchanges between literatures and cultures across Europe and beyond. We welcome graduates of all arts and humanities disciplines. You will become acquainted with the theory and practice of comparative literary and cultural studies, consider how concepts of national cultures cross borders and media forms and interact with ideas of the transnational and intermedial. You will gain a thorough grounding in literary, cultural and intermedial theories, critical reading and research skills, and put this theoretical knowledge into practice by studying topics and themes that span the disciplines, national contexts and time periods taught by experts in the School of Modern Languages. While knowledge of a foreign language is not a requirement for this programme, you will have the opportunity to learn a language at a variety of levels, from beginner to advanced, and to engage directly with material in foreign languages throughout the MA. The programme culminates in a dissertation - an extended piece of original academic research. As a postgraduate, you will be considered a full member of the academic community, with the opportunity to participate in the many research seminars and conferences taking place within the Faculty of Arts.

Modules

This module allows students to explore the notion of the ?encounter? as a dominant force in contemporary experiences and understandings of culture. Students will explore the ways in which cultures interact and are in dialogue with each other, by examining practices such as translation, adaptation, imitation and reception within and across borders. Encounters happen through displacement and mobility (e.g. travel and exile, in addition to the circulation of ideas and works), but also occur within cultures (e.g. between the rural and the industrial, and between high and low cultures). The encounter is characteristic of a globalised, transnational world; as such, students will be introduced to contemporary cultural theories such as post-modernism, post-colonialism and globalisation. Yet they will also use the knowledge gained from 'Institutions of Culture' to reflect on the historical precedents for these cultural practices, such as the movement of ideas across borders in the Romantic period. By fracturing the cultural ?canon? in this way, students will be introduced to some of the cutting-edge debates in academic discourse, such as those on world literature and transnational cinema.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£13,200

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£13,200

Entry requirements

An upper second-class honours degree or international equivalent in an arts or humanities discipline, such as modern languages, English or comparative literature, linguistics, history, visual art, theatre or film, philosophy, anthropology and cultural geography.