Comparative Literature
Comparative literature is the study of similarities and diffrences between literature, across time, place and language. This major introduces the practice, methodology and theory of comparative study, and option modules allow a more detailed focus on literary themes, genres and historical periods.
Requirements
Students wanting to study the Comparative Literature major must have taken the following options in the first year:
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The Introduction to Comparative Literature module
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An advanced language and option module in French, Spanish, Portuguese or German.
Entry onto the advanced language modules requires a minimum of 'A' at A-level (or equivalent) in that language.
Modules
In year two, students must take either both:
or both:
Students studying abroad must just take one of the two starred modules.
In addition, students must take:
as well as one module from the following list (modules have to be taken in the language studied in year 1):
Semester 1
Semester 2
All modules listed above are worth 15 credits.
In year three, students continue to study a range of modules either directly comparative or in the language studied in year one. Students must take a dissertation also one of the three modules:
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War in Greek Poetry 1897-1981
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Imaging London and Paris
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Ancient Lyric & English Poetry
Students must also take one of the following modues;
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The Stylistics of Translation
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Medieval Occitan Literature
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The Debate about Women in the Middle Ages
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Sixteenth-century Encounters with the New World
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The Literary Perception of the Honnete Homme
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The City in the Literature of 17th & 18th century France
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Gender & Discourse in 18th century France
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Proust
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French Literature under the Second Empire
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Troubling Desires
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Recent French Thought
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Contemporary Women's Writing ni French
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Images of Algeria
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Citizenship & Exclusion in Modern France
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Topics in French Film II
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Shadows of Enlightenment
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Flaubert
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French Feminist Writing
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Quebecois Fiction & Film across the Canadian Bicultural Divide
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Structure and Usage of Contemporary German
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The Nibelungenlied: From the 12th to the 20th Century
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Aspects of Post-1945 German Fiction
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Franz Kafka
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Heinrich Heine
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German Reunification: Culture and Politics
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German Gender Politics
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Brechtian Cinema and Political Modernism
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Poiltics and Everdya Life in 20th Century Germany
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Modernity, Traditionalism & National Identity
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Images of Spain: Stereotypes in Spanish Cinema
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Mester de Celercia: Intellectuals and Ideologies in the 13th Century Castle
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Historical Change & Cultural Expression in the Southern Cone
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Spain in the World
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Lusophone African Literature II: The postcolonial experience
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Luis de Camoes
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Myth & Archive: 19th & 20th Century Rewritings of Colonial Latin America
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Key Terms & Points of View in Latin American Visual Arts
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Journey through Spain: Travel Writing in Modern Spain
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History & Imagination in 19th Century Spanish Narrative
Note: Modules may vary year-on-year depending on staff availability.