Study is based around student-led seminars, but also incorporates visits to literary performances and other cultural events and access to guest lectures from prominent writers and cultural critics; compulsory modules: a critical introduction to contemporary literature and theory; research methods; postgraduate seminar; independent study modules (lead to the completion of the dissertation); optional modules: contemporary British fiction examines British (defined inclusively) writers working in the genre of the novel and the short story such as, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Hanif Kureishi, Ben Okri, David Peace, Salman Rushdie, Rose Tremain, Fay Weldon and Jeanette Winterson; contemporary American fiction, takes students from Kathy Acker to Edmund White, via Don DeLillo, Percival Everett, Jonathan Franzen, Chuck Palahniuk, DBC Pierre, Toni Morrison, Alice Sebold, Lionel Shriver and others; fiction and film, examines literary and film texts as examples of contemporary culture, focusing on issues such as adaptation and multi-culturalism plus the representation of space and identity in depictions of the city, the small town and suburbia; postcolonial literature and theory; fairy tale and gothic horror; new technologies and culture; writing analyses: the artistry and craft of various kinds of non-fiction writing; theories of storytelling; webwriting and hyperfiction.
Форма обучен. |
Начало |
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Форма обучен.Вечернее |
Начало сентябрь, февраль |
Продолж.Кол-во лет: 0 - 2 |
Форма обучен.Дневное |
Начало сентябрь, февраль |
Продолж.Кол-во лет: 1 |
The course focuses principally on works of fiction of the past 10 years which are studied in the light of contemporary cultural developments and critical theory, appealing to graduates with a general interest in contemporary fiction and culture and those interested in particular authors or groups of authors; and applicants need to value intellectual flexibility and have an enthusiasm for literary and other forms of contemporary culture.