Голдсмитс, Лондонский университет, MA, Comparative Literary Studies (American Literature and Culture)

This aims to enhance students' knowledge and understanding of the literature that has sought to define or has emerged from America; the core course which is at the centre of this pathway, American literature and culture: critical and theoretical concepts, engages in a rigorous study of particular phases and applications of American literary criticism and theory, as well as consolidating students' knowledge of 19th- and 20th-century American literature; in particular, students study some of the ways in which 19th- and 20th-century American literature sought to understand the nation in the face of the fragmenting effects of modernity and postmodernity; competing readings of canonical American texts enable students to assess how American critical and theoretical conceptions shape American literature, producing different Americas; students pursue wider interests by studying 3 options from the large provision of the department, choosing at least 1 of these in an area that is relevant to the literature of the Americas; students further develop their interest in American literature and culture through a 15,000-word dissertation to be submitted at the end of the programme; all texts are studied in English or in English translation.