Postgraduate Prospectus

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Taught course modules
MA Literature
The Study of Literature Today
Research Methods in Literary
and Cultural Analysis
Three Literature options
Dissertation
MA Creative Writing
Creative Writing Workshop
Research Methods in Literary
and Cultural Analysis
Three Creative Writing options
Dissertation
MA Film and Literature
Issues in Film Theory
and History
Research Methods in Literary
and Cultural Analysis
One Film Studies module
Two Literature, Film, and
Theatre Studies options
Dissertation or individually
produced film or video with
written component
MA Film Studies
Issues in Film Theory
and History
Research Methods in Literary
and Cultural Analysis
Workshop in Film and
Video Production
Two options from:
Non-fiction Film: From
Document to Drama-doc
Creative Writing and Reflection
Women Filmmakers
Dissertation or individually
produced film or video with
written component
MA Myth, Literature, and
the Unconscious
Interpretation of Myth
The Mythological Psyche
Cities and the Sacred
Dreams and Myths
Myth and Modernism: Joint
Seminar in Myth, Literature
and Depth Psychology
Dissertation
MA Theatre
Research Methods in Literary
and Cultural Analysis
Four options, at least two in
Theatre Studies
Dissertation or own play plus
shorter dissertation
MA Wild Writing:
Literature and the
Environment
The Wild East
The New Nature Writing
Either Research Methods in
Literary and Cultural Analysis
or Research Skills and Data
Analysis
One Literature option
One Biological Sciences
option
Dissertation
This information is a guide to course
content and is subject to change on
an annual basis.
For a full listing of all modules please visit:
www.essex.ac.uk/lifts.
textual and analytical skills that are relevant
to a wide range of future careers.
MA Creative Writing•
Building on our strong tradition of creative
writing, MA Creative Writing offers a unique
approach to the practice of writing with
emphasis on innovation and experiment. Our
variety of modules deepen your knowledge
of literary tradition, and different modes and
genres, in order to develop your practical
skills of expression and invention. With
planned readings and writing exercises in
class, you expand your techniques, as well
as your critical judgement of your own work.
Our creative writing teaching team has
a breadth of experience in the literatures
of different cultures and different forms.
Our current teaching staff include
internationally acclaimed novelist and critic
Marina Warner, poet and short story writer
Philip Terry, lyric writer Adrian May, and
award-winning playwrights Elizabeth Kuti
and Jonathan Lichtenstein. Less formally,
we have readings, talks and visiting writers
and currently host two Royal Literary Fund
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Fellows, who are professional writers on
hand to help you develop your writing on
a one-to-one basis.
MA English Language and Literature•
This course contributes towards the theory
and practice behind aspects of English
language teaching, as well as providing
you with elements of the study on English
language in use in different situations and
for different purposes. It should interest you
if your future career may include both the
teaching of English language and English
literature, or if you wish to gain knowledge
of how literature may be applied in the
teaching of language, or if you want to gain
experience in the study of each discipline at
a postgraduate level. For more information,
including a modules list, please see our
Linguistics entry.
MA Film and Literature•
This course focuses on the theoretical
and practical interactions between literature
and film, providing you with a range of
textual and analytic skills. It allows you to
choose a specific area of literary studies to
complement your study of film history and
theory, and to enhance your understanding
of the different ways that literary and filmic
texts create their meanings.
The comparative nature of our MA Film
and Literature is informed by the research
expertise of our staff, which encompasses
a wide range of world cinemas, postcolonial
studies, cultural theory, translation,
adaptation theory, and modernist and
postmodernist aesthetics. You can explore
the relationship between literature and film
from a number of different perspectives,
including how the practices of one medium
anticipates and influences the other.
MA Film Studies•
MA Film Studies offers a unique
opportunity, not only to explore film
and video from analytic and aesthetic
perspectives, but to apply this theoretical
knowledge to a collective or personal video
project. Our focus is mainly on alternative,
low-budget cinemas but our core seminar
also takes in fundamentals of film history
and theory, including Hollywood. Modules