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Literary Studies: English Literature and Culture

Master

English Literature and Culture is a specialisation within the MA Literary Studies.

The specialisation consists of four 10 EC courses or equivalent and the MA thesis (20 EC).

The Elective MA Literary Studies can also be a course offered within the MA Linguistics: English Language and Linguistics .

Courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First semester

Choose 30 EC from the list below:
Situated Literatures I 5
Situated Literatures II: James Joyce as a European Writer 5
Unattempted Yet in Prose or Rhyme: Paradise Lost in Context 10
Alfred Hitchcock 10
Marvels of the East in Old and Middle English Literature 10
Slavery and Memory in Transatlantic Perspective 10
Elective MA Literary Studies 10

Second semester
MA Thesis Literary Studies 20

Choose 10 EC from the list below:
Supernatural Fiction: Belief, Horror and Wonder in Anglo-American Popular Culture 10
Heroes and Heroines of the Faith: Saints in Anglo-Saxon England 10
Obscenity and Medieval English Literature 10
“Anywhere But Here and Now”: Prose Fiction of the Interbellum, 1919-1939 10
Odysseys of Homer: Appropriations of the Iliad and Odyssey in 21st-century English culture 10
Migration Matters: (Im)migration, Memory, and Identity in American Literature and Film 10
Elective MA Literary Studies 10