This MA programme enables students to study in Canterbury in the autumn term and in Paris in the spring term. The autumn term modules are the same as those for the standard MA in Comparative Literature. The spring term modules are taught by staff from the University of Kent and occasional guest lecturers, thus ensuring consistent academic standards and assessment throughout the year. These modules are designed to be specifically relevant to the experience of living and studying in Paris. Students are encouraged to make full use of Paris's cultural resources and to integrate these into their studies. University of Kent staff are resident in Paris during the spring term to ensure year-long continuity of academic guidance and pastoral support.

Course content

• Autumn term (Canterbury): two from Literature and Theory; European Tales of the Fantastic; Women Writers and the Family in 20th-Century Literature; The European Avant-Garde in Literature, Art and Film; Psychoanalysis and Literature; European Modernism: Sexual and Textual Deviance; Literature in Dark Times; Postcolonial Cultures; Writing the Self: Autobiography in the Modern Period or one option from those listed above and one offered by other departments in the Faculty of Humanities.
• Spring term (Paris): two from Paris and Modernism; Reality and Representation; Diaspora and Exile; Film and Modernity; Entente Cordiale - Myth or Reality
• Dissertation of 12,000 words

Assessment

Assessment is by one 5,000-word essay for each module, and the dissertation.

see Paris Programme.

T: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk

Dr Shane Weller
Comparative Literature
School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
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E: s.j.weller@kent.ac.uk

Centre for English and World Languages
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E: premasters@kent.ac.uk
W: www.kent.ac.uk/cewl/courses/GraduateDiplomas

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