The MA in Modern European Literature is designed for students who wish to range beyond any one national tradition and to study major writers, genres, and movements within the broader context of modern European literature. It also gives you the opportunity to read literary works in their original language.

Course content

• Literature and Theory
• Three from: Blindness, Vision and Aesthetic Writing in the 19th Century; Contemporary Women Poets; The European Avant-Garde in Literature, Art and Film; European Tales of the Fantastic; From Pure to Committed Literature; Literary Theory; National and Regional Consciousness in Modern Spanish Literature; Post-War Literature and Memory; Psychoanalysis and Literature; Through a Lens; Varieties of Artifice; Writing the Self; Women Writers and the Family in 20th-Century Literature.
• Dissertation of 12,000 words

Assessment

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

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Professor Ben Hutchinson
German Literature School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
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