University of Exeter, MA, English Studies

Compulsory modules: Postgraduate research; dissertation; plus 3 option modules from: heretics and mystics: language, society and the Divine 1300-1500; writing poetry; the Novella; country, city and court: Renaissance literature, 1558-1618; 1830–1870, making progress? literature in a changing environment; theory through literature; the cultures of American Modernism; criticism and theory: current debates; Romanticism: nature revisited; the body and identity in the age of reason; movie Mavericks: creativity, crisis and change in 1970s Hollywood; hearing film: film sound and music; transatlantic perspectives on literature and culture of the American South; narrative and subjectivity: the English novel, Richardson to Austen; the English Novel: Behn to Austen; bodies politic: cultural and sexual politics in England, 1603-1679; beyond Shakespeare: politics, print and performance in Jacobean drama; poetry of events: building a plot; empire and decadence; sex and death in the city? questions of film noir; criticism and theory: aesthetics, authority and agency; postcolonial debates in intellectual practice; poetry in Britain and Ireland, 1900-1945; writing for the screen.