Pathway 4: Writing in the Modern Age
MA in English Studies
Pathway Description
Writing in the Modern Age examines how modernism and modern writing have encountered a range of intellectual debates in areas such as politics, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, postcolonialism, and critical theory. Through reflecting on the dynamic relationships between these different discourses, the pathway will provide you with a series of tools for thinking about the nature, status, and role of literature in the modern world. All students take Modernism and After, a core module which addresses the concepts of modernity and post-modernity, and provides a critical introduction to modernist theory and writing. You will also be given the chance to choose from a range of modules. These research-led modules have been specially designed to reflect the current scholarly interests of academics within the Department. Such an arrangement is mutually beneficial: it provides staff with the opportunity to discuss and debate their latest work, and students with the chance to come into contact with cutting-edge research by leading specialists.
Pathway Outline
You will take the core module Modernism and After in semester one. You will also take three optional modules (one of which may be from another pathway) from a list which may include:
- Freud and Proust
- Imagining the Modern Caribbean
- Modernism and Ireland
- Cultural Legacies of the First World War
- Writing the East End
- Aestheticism and the Fin-de-Siècle Literature
- African Literary and Textual Cultures
- Postcolonialism, Language and Identity
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