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Master of Letters Comparative Literature


Master of Letters Comparative Literature
Code Module name Credits
(( View list 80 credits from Module List: CO5001 - CO5002, ML5001, ML5004 AND
CO5001 Apples and Oranges: Issues in Comparative Literature 20
CO5002 The Contemporary Canon: Why Books Sell 20
ML5001 Literary and Cultural Theory (1) 20
ML5004 Research and Professional Skills 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Module List: AP5013-AP5014,FR5013-FR5014,GM5013-GM5014,IT5013-IT5014,ML5006,ML5105,ML5201,RU5013-RU5014,SP5013-SP5014 ) OR
AP5013 Middle Eastern Literary and Cultural Contexts (20) 20
AP5014 Specialised Research in Middle Eastern Literatures and Cultures 20
FR5013 French Literary Revolutions (20) 20
FR5014 Specialised Research in French Studies 20
GM5013 German Literary and Cultural Contexts (20) 20
GM5014 Specialised Research in German Studies 20
IT5013 Italian Literary and Cultural Contexts (20) 20
IT5014 Specialised Research in Italian Studies 20
ML5006 Problems of Culture and Identity 1 20
ML5105 Europe and America: Dialogues and Identity Formation in Text, Film and Theory 20
RU5013 New Approaches to the Russian Literary Canon (20) 20
RU5014 Specialised Research in Russian Studies 20
SP5013 Patterns in Hispanic Literature and Film (20) 20
SP5014 Specialised Research in Spanish and/or Latin American Studies 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( View list 90 credits from Module List: CO5001 - CO5002, CO5004, ML5001, ML5004 AND
CO5001 Apples and Oranges: Issues in Comparative Literature 20
CO5002 The Contemporary Canon: Why Books Sell 20
CO5004 Specialised Reading and Translating for Comparative Literature 10
ML5001 Literary and Cultural Theory (1) 20
ML5004 Research and Professional Skills 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 40 credits from Undergraduate language modules )) AND
AR1001 Arabic for Beginners 1 20
AR1002 Arabic for Beginners 2 20
FR1001 French Language and Literature 1 20
FR1002 French Language and Literature 2 20
GM1001 First Level German A 1 20
GM1002 First Level German A 2 20
GM1003 First Level German B 1 20
GM1004 First Level German B 2 20
IT1001 Introduction to Italian Language 20
IT1002 Italian Language (Elementary) 20
IT1003 Italian Language Intermediate 1 10
IT1004 Italian Language Intermediate 2 10
IT1005 Contemporary Italian Short Stories 10
IT1006 Italian Renaissance Books of Manners 10
IT1007 Poverty and Politics in Fascist Italy 10
IT1008 The Italian Short Story from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century 10
IT1012 The Culture of Unified Italy 10
IT1013 Italian Geographies 10
IT1014 Italian Histories 10
PR1001 Persian for Beginners 1 20
PR1002 Persian for Beginners 2 20
SP1001 Spanish Language and Texts 1 20
SP1002 Spanish Language and Texts 2 20
SP1003 Spanish for Beginners 1 20
SP1004 Spanish for Beginners 2 20
AR2001 Intermediate Arabic 1 20
AR2002 Intermediate Arabic 2 20
AR2004 Introduction to Classical Arab Culture 20
FR2201 Second Level French Language (1) 10
FR2202 Second Level French Language (2) 10
FR2203 French Civilisation: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
FR2204 French Civilisation: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
FR2205 French Literature: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
FR2206 French Literature: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
GM2003 Second Level Advanced German Language 1 10
GM2004 Second Level Advanced German Language 2 10
GM2007 Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 1 10
GM2008 Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 2 10
IT2001 Second Level Italian 20
IT2002 Second Level Italian (Advanced) 20
PR2001 Intermediate Persian 1 20
PR2002 Intermediate Persian 2 20
SP2001 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1 20
SP2002 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 2 20
SP2005 Spanish Language and Texts: ex-Beginners 20
SP2006 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Cinema 20
SP2015 Spanish for Science Students: Ex-Beginners 20
AR3201 Media Arabic 30
AR3206 Literary Arabic 30
AR3250 Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 1 30
AR3401 Media Arabic 1 15
AR3402 Media Arabic 2 15
AR3411 Modern Arab Culture and Society 15
AR3421 Arabic Short Stories 1 15
AR3422 Arabic Short Stories 2 15
AR3461 Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 1 15
AR3462 Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 2 15
FR3001 French Language 1 15
FR3002 French Language 2 15
FR3021 An Introduction to the French Classical Period 15
FR3025 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Nineteenth-Century French Theatre 15
FR3028 Plays, Players and Playwrights (1620 - 1680) 1 15
FR3030 'Tartuffe' in Context, in Performance and in Translation 15
FR3059 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (1) 15
FR3063 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics, Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (1) 15
FR3076 Writing the Nineteenth Century 1: French Literature, History and Politics 1848 - 1871 15
FR3077 Contemporary French Fiction 15
FR3079 From Text to Screen: Novels and their Film Adaptations 15
FR3080 Intellectuals in Modern France 15
FR3081 The Court of Louis XIV 15
GM3005 German Language 1 15
GM3006 German Language 2 15
GM3038 Understanding Modernism: Franz Kafka 15
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche 15
GM3051 The German Novel After 1945 15
GM3070 Heroism in Modern German Literature 15
GM3071 Recent German Literature 15
GM3072 Gender and Sexuality in Pre-modern German Writing 15
GM3073 The Medieval Short Story 15
GM3074 Germany Identity and the 'Jewish Question' 15
GM3075 Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus 15
GM3080 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions in Modern German 15
GM3081 Words and their Functions in Modern German 15
GM3082 Cultural Critique in Austrian Writing of the Twentieth Century 15
GM3083 Hartmann von Aue: Knights, Lovers, Sinners, Saints 15
GM3084 Future Shocks: Science and Technology in German Literature 15
GM3085 Medieval Encounters with the Orient: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm 15
GM3087 Bertolt Brecht: The Drama of Revolt 15
GM3088 Travel Writing in German since 1990 15
GM3089 The German Gothic (1800 - 2000) 15
GM3091 The Nazi Past in German Cultural Memory 15
IT3001 Italian Language 1 15
IT3002 Italian Language 2 15
IT3009 History of the Italian Language 15
IT3012 Fourteenth Century Literature 15
IT3014 The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy 15
IT3019 Contemporary Italian Narrative and Poetry 15
IT3022 Nineteenth-Century Literature 15
IT3035 Italian Detective Fiction 15
IT3036 Venice 15
IT3037 Contemporary Italian Woman Writers 15
IT3038 Primo Levi 15
IT3039 Emigrant Nation 15
PR3001 Higher Intermediate Persian 1 15
PR3002 Higher Intermediate Persian 2 15
PR3020 Key Texts in Modern Persian Literature 15
PR3021 Modern Iran through Cinema 15
PR3022 Modernity and Iranian Drama 15
SP3001 Spanish Language 1 15
SP3002 Spanish Language 2 15
SP3006 Literary Translation 15
SP3011 History of the Spanish Language 15
SP3121 Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
SP3122 Spanish American Literature 2 15
SP3123 Spanish Cinema (Topic) 15
SP3124 Spanish Cinema (Director) 15
SP3138 Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 15
SP3140 Literature and Politics in Spain 1930 - 1939 15
SP3143 Cinema and Literature in Spain 1920 - 1936 15
SP3145 Post-1975 Writing in Spain 1 15
SP3147 The Art of Subversion in Post-War Spain (1939-1975) 15
SP3148 The Argentine and Chilean Avant-Garde (1920s-1930s) 15
SP3157 Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
SP3158 Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
SP3159 Gender and Violence in Golden Age Literature 15
SP3161 Rebels, Reactionaries, Reformers: Women Writers in Nineteenth-century Spain 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
SP3163 Tales of the Nation 15
SP3221 Language, Conflict and Society 15
SP3222 Love and Loss 15
AR4205 Advanced Arabic 30
AR4235 Modern Arabic Literature: Novellas 30
AR4251 Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 2 30
AR4401 Advanced Arabic 1 15
AR4402 Advanced Arabic 2 15
AR4421 Exile and Identity 15
AR4422 Palestinian Fiction 15
AR4461 Classical Arabic Poetry 15
AR4462 Classical Arabic Prose 15
FR4078 Music in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 15
FR4103 Translation Methodology 1 15
FR4104 Translation Methodology 2 15
FR4105 Communication Skills in French 1 15
FR4106 Communication Skills in French 2 15
FR4110 Translating French Opera 15
FR4111 Discovering the Renaissance: Imitation, Interpretation and Imagination 15
FR4115 Representations of the Renaissance: Sixteenth-century France in Historical Novels and Films 15
FR4116 Medieval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Medieval French Literature 15
FR4123 Libertine Literature and Libertinage in Eighteenth-Century France 15
FR4125 The French Age of Enlightenment 15
FR4129 Plays, Players and Playwrights (1620 - 1715) 2 15
FR4149 Aspects of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Theatre 15
FR4150 Creative Writing in French 15
FR4160 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (2) 15
FR4164 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics,Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (2) 15
FR4169 Painting and Writing: the figure of the artist in recent French Literature 15
FR4175 The 'nouveau roman': Undoing the Novel 15
FR4176 Recent Women's Writing in French: Theory and Practice 15
FR4180 Modern French Thought 15
FR4181 Contemporary French Crime Fiction 15
FR4182 Goods and Ads: Consumerism in Modern France 15
FR4807 Honours French 3 (Science) 15
FR4808 Honours French 4 (Science) 15
GM4007 Translation Methodology (German / English) 15
GM4046 Medieval Things 15
GM4047 German Cinema 15
GM4049 Language and Ideology in the GDR and West Germany from 1949 - 1989 15
GM4069 German History 1949 to the Present 15
GM4070 Writing Nature: German Environmental Thought (1800 - 2000) 15
GM4071 Shakespeare: the German Catalyst 15
GM4072 German Classicism 15
GM4073 Women in German Letters 15
GM4074 Medieval History 15
GM4079 Dealing with the Past 15
GM4082 German Journalists 1848-1980 15
GM4084 German Monsters 15
GM4086 Reason and Revolt: German Culture in the Enlightenment 15
GM4088 Prose Representations of Modern Berlin 15
GM4089 Mermaids, Devils, Fortunes: How the German Novel Began 15
GM4090 Contemporary Turkish-German Text and Film 15
GM4091 Generation, Genealogy and the Quest for Tradition: Contemporary German Family Narratives 15
GM4092 East German Cinema 15
GM4093 Heimat Discourse in Contemporary German Literature 15
GM4094 The German Long Story (1880 - 1941) 15
GM4095 Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898 15
GM4096 Love in German Literature since the 1990s 15
GM4105 German Language 3 15
GM4106 German Language 4 15
IT4003 Communication Skills 1 15
IT4004 Communication Skills 2 15
IT4005 Translation Methodology 15
IT4010 Early Italian Lyric Poetry 15
IT4012 Dante Alighieri 15
IT4013 Modern Italy through Cinema 15
IT4014 Female Literary Representations in the Italian Renaissance 15
IT4015 Literary Transvestism in Italian Literature 15
IT4016 Twentieth-Century Italian Canonical and Anti-Canonical Poetry 15
IT4022 Fascist Italy 15
IT4023 Authority and subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
IT4024 Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
IT4025 Foreign Bodies: Migration and Contemporary Italian Culture 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
IT4027 Migration and Transculturality in New Italian Narratives 15
IT4029 Black Italians 15
PR4001 Advanced Persian 1 15
PR4002 Advanced Persian 2 15
PR4020 Introduction to Classical Persian Literature 15
SP4003 Spanish Language 3 15
SP4004 Spanish Language 4: Communication Skills 15
SP4008 Contemporary Spanish Language 15
SP4012 Linguistic Study of the Spanish Language 15
SP4013 Culture and Conflict: Representing the Spanish Civil War 15
SP4014 Spanish Avant-garde(s) 15
SP4015 Action Heroes and Anti-heroes in Early-Modern Spain 15
SP4113 Honours Spanish 3 (Science) 15
SP4114 Honours Spanish 4 (Science): Communication Skills 15
SP4223 History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
SP4224 Reality and Illusion 15
AR5023 Further Arabic for Postgraduates 40
FR5001 Advanced Translation 40
FR5007 Echoes of 1940: The Questioning of French Identity 40
FR5011 French Literary Revolutions (40) 40
FR5013 French Literary Revolutions (20) 20
FR5014 Specialised Research in French Studies 20
FR5101 Texts and Ideas in Early Modern France 20
FR5102 Perceptions of the Other in French Literature and Culture 20
FR5103 Directed Reading in French Literature and Culture 40
FR5104 Advanced Language Skills 20
FR5105 Self and Society: Comic Drama, 1620 - 1740 40
FR5106 The Metamorphoses of Orpheus: Song in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 40
FR5108 Autofiction and the Media in Contemporary French Literature and Culture 40
FR5109 Twenty-first Century French Fiction: Creating the Contemporary 40
FR5110 Ideas and the Book in Early Modern France 40
FR5201 A Special Subject in French or Francophone Culture 20
GM5001 German - English Translation Methodology 40
GM5002 The Linguistics of Modern German (40) 40
GM5011 German Literary and Cultural Contexts: Turning Points (40) 40
GM5012 The Method of Lexical Exceptions in German (40) 40
GM5013 German Literary and Cultural Contexts (20) 20
GM5014 Specialised Research in German Studies 20
GM5027 The German Novel since 1945 40
GM5047 The Politics of Language in the FRG and the GDR from 1949-1989 (20) 20
GM5058 A Special Subject in German, Austrian or Swiss Culture (20) 20
GM5062 Joseph Roth: A Case of Austrian, Jewish Identity 20
GM5064 Reportage as Zeitgeschichte 40
GM5068 A Special Subject in German, Austrian or Swiss Culture (40) 40
GM5069 Gender and German Writing 40
GM5070 King Arthur and the Holy Grail: The World of Medieval Romance 40
GM5071 Cultural History of the Medieval Body 40
GM5101 German Identities 20
GM5102 The Linguistics of Modern German (20) 20
GM5105 The Method of Lexical Exceptions in German (20) 20
GM5201 Introduction to Medieval German Literature (40) 40
GM5301 Middle High German 20
GM5302 Introduction to Medieval German Literature (20) 20
IT5001 Memory and Identity: The Existential and Political Cinema of Nanni Moretti 20
IT5002 Italian Humanism and the Foundations of European Identity 20
IT5003 Concepts of Love in Early Italian Literature 20
IT5004 New Italian Narrative Models: Pavese, Vittorini and Calvino, 1939 - 1957 20
IT5005 Extended Study in Italian Literature and Culture 20
IT5011 Italian Literary and Cultural Contexts: Italians (40) 40
IT5013 Italian Literary and Cultural Contexts (20) 20
IT5014 Specialised Research in Italian Studies 20
IT5036 A Special Subject in Italian Culture 20
IT5101 Directed Reading in Italian Literature and Culture 40
SP5001 A Study of Contemporary Spanish Language 40
SP5011 Patterns in Hispanic Literature and Film (40) 40
SP5013 Patterns in Hispanic Literature and Film (20) 20
SP5014 Specialised Research in Spanish and/or Latin American Studies 20
SP5021 Study of a Golden Age Author 40
SP5023 Literature of the River Plate 40
SP5024 A Special Subject in Latin American Literature 40
SP5025 Literature and/or Historiography in Latin America (1492 - 1700) 40
SP5029 Ortega and Avant-garde Prose Fiction 40
SP5030 Literature of the Spanish Civil War 40
SP5031 The Socialist Decade: Spain 1982-1996 40
SP5032 Independent Mexico 1821 - 1855 40
SP5033 A Specialist Subject in Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature 40
SP5034 Special Subject in Medieval Studies 40
SP5035 Cultural Identities of Latin America 20
SP5036 A Special Subject in Latin American Literature 20
SP5037 A Special Subject in Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature 20
SP5038 A Special Subject in Golden Age Spanish Literature 20
SP5039 A Special Subject in Spanish Linguistics 20
SP5040 Directed Reading in Spanish or Latin American Literature and Culture 40
SP5124 Spanish Films 20
SP5125 Spanish Film Studies 30
SP5126 Spanish Cinema 40
SP5146 The Essay on National Identity in Spanish 20
SP5201 Patterns in Hispanic Literature and Film 40
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
ML5099 Dissertation for MLitt Programme/s 60

Further requirements

Choose 180 credits in academic year

MPhil:
120 credits from MLitt taught element (excluding dissertation) plus a thesis of not more than 40,000 words.