Goldsmiths, University of London, MA, Comparative Literary Studies (American Literature and Culture)
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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.
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