Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought
The MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Thought at Sussex attempts to understand how literature has shaped and been shaped by modern and contemporary culture. The programme includes courses which reflect on the experience of the city, on photography, on modernism and postmodernism, on psychoanalysis, on the experience of war, and on globalisation.
There is a thriving Centre for Modernist Studies at Sussex,which invites distinguished speakers from around the world,as well as regular colloquia in English, in Philosophy, in American Studies and Social and Political Thought. The range of courses on offer, the international excellence of faculty and students, and the intellectual energy of the graduate culture more generally, is what makes the study of modern and contemporary literature at Sussex uniquely dynamic and exciting. In recent years this MA has offered courses in: Contemporary Writing; Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction in Britain; Photography and Fiction in the 20th Century; Creativity and Utopia; Theory in Practice; American Poetry After Modernism; ImagiNation: the Great American Novel; Representing the Great Depression in Literature and Culture; Gendering the PostColonial; Marxism and Creative Writing; The Migrant Writer.
Please refer to the postgraduate prospectus for more information and how to apply.