MA English (Modernities: Romanticism, Modernism, Post-modernism)
MA in English - Modernities: Romanticism, Modernism, Post-modernism
Period of Study: One Year
Course Components: Subject Unit: Taught Course in Modernities. October to March, two 2-hours seminars per week, plus related work. Research Skills Unit: October to February, one 2-hour seminar per week, plus related work. Dissertation: Period of research: February to September (submission of dissertation in October)
Co-ordinator - Dr Alex Davis (021) 4902185 / a.davis@ucc.ie
Subject Unit
This MA introduces students to advanced study of literature in English from the Romantic period to the present day. Locating three key movements in literature and culture since the 1790s - Romanticism, Modernism, Post-modernism - the course explores connections between ideas and aesthetic techniques traditionally associated with those movements. Topic areas may include:
- Theories of modernity and postmodernity
- Englightenment and counter-Enlightenment
- Romantic literature
- Theores of the avant-garde: Futurism, Dada, Surrealism
- Modernist literature and the New Modernist Studies
- The gender of Modernism
- Postmosdernist literature and film
- Postcolonial literature/theory and postmodernism
Teaching Staff: Dr Graham Allen, Dr Alex Davis, Dr Anne Etienne, Dr Lee Jenkins, Dr Heather Laird, Dr Jools Gilson-Ellis, Dr Christina Morin.
Research Skills Unit - Information Literacy, Technology and Research
By means of a team-teaching technique plus self-paced interactive work, this component will familiarise students with the MLA style, equip them with fundamental skills in computing and related IT skills, enable them to convey their thoughts and ideas verbally in an academic environment, and research, access and evaluate library sources.
Dissertation
A dissertation equivalent to 15,000-17,000 words on an approved topic, written under the direction of an appropriate member of staff.
