This programme allows you to combine modules from the MA in Modern French Studies and the MA in Comparative Literature. The core module, Literature and Theory, introduces you to a wide range of theoretical positions, with the aim of enriching your appreciation of the texts and critical practices examined in the course of the programme. These centres of interest are designed to be complementary and to encourage comparison in a variety of contexts: national literatures, genres, media and theory.

The MA is aimed at graduates in modern languages wanting to consolidate their knowledge in a wider context; at English graduates wishing to diversify their interests; and graduates in other humanities subjects (history, philosophy, theology) who would like to apply their knowledge to literary and visual material.

Course content

• Core module: Literature and Theory
• Up to two from: The Shifting Gaze: Cinematic Adaptations in Modern French Culture; Through a Lens: Photography in the Text; Varieties of Artifice: The Painting in the Text
• Up to two from: European Modernism;The European Avant-Garde in Literature, Art and Film; European Tales of the Fantastic; Literature in Dark Times; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Writing the Self.
• Dissertation of 12-15,000 words written in either English or French

Assessment

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

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

Professor Peter Read
Department of French School of European Culture and Languages,
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 827410
E: p.f.read@kent.ac.uk

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