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This core module for the MA Global Literary Industries Management introduces the critical vocabularies for understanding the literary and cultural industries. It introduces the key conceptual and creative ideas that underpin literary arts management. It explores the changing meanings of authorship, ownership, originality and intertextuality. It evaluates why the genre and forms of writing matter and looks at how the distinctions between canonical, popular and experimental texts have been developed and maintained. It also examines questions of reading, cultural consumption and reception. It asks why, how,and where people read and what meanings they give to reading. Finally, it provides you with a vocabulary for writing, researching and talking about the institutions and markets of cultural institutions, as we look at the role that pedagogies, publishers and prizes play in the literary industry.

This module provides a comprehensive introduction to the analytical frameworks at the heart of the MA Languages and Cultures programme. Through guided weekly readings, discussion-based seminars and reflective short assessments, you will develop the skills required to engage at an advanced level with the high-level texts and concepts you will come across during the taught and research components of your MA programme. Producing short reflective accounts will hone your writing and communication skills. You will be encouraged throughout to reflect on early ideas for your dissertation, which you will then develop on a more practical and concrete basis during the semester 2 Research Skills module.

This module provides a comprehensive introduction to the analytical frameworks at the heart of the MA Languages and Cultures programme. Through guided weekly readings, discussion-based seminars and reflective short assessments, you will develop the skills required to engage at an advanced level with the high-level texts and concepts you will come across during the taught and research components of your MA programme. Producing short reflective accounts will hone your writing and communication skills. You will be encouraged throughout to reflect on early ideas for your dissertation, which you will then develop on a more practical and concrete basis during the semester 2 Research Skills module.

This module provides a comprehensive introduction to the analytical frameworks at the heart of the MA Languages and Cultures programme. Through guided weekly readings, discussion-based seminars and reflective short assessments, you will develop the skills required to engage at an advanced level with the high-level texts and concepts you will come across during the taught and research components of your MA programme. Producing short reflective accounts will hone your writing and communication skills. You will be encouraged throughout to reflect on early ideas for your dissertation, which you will then develop on a more practical and concrete basis during the semester 2 Research Skills module.

This module provides a comprehensive introduction to the analytical frameworks at the heart of the MA Languages and Cultures programme. Through guided weekly readings, discussion-based seminars and reflective short assessments, you will develop the skills required to engage at an advanced level with the high-level texts and concepts you will come across during the taught and research components of your MA programme. Producing short reflective accounts will hone your writing and communication skills. You will be encouraged throughout to reflect on early ideas for your dissertation, which you will then develop on a more practical and concrete basis during the semester 2 Research Skills module.

This optional module for the MA English Literary Studies, taught by those contributing to the programme in a given year, will introduce you to the key critical, theoretical, historiographical and conceptual debates surrounding the study of genre. It will emphasise the issues which have been central to current scholarship on genre, and consider how literary and cultural texts have employed, combined, and subverted the formal conventions of genre.

This optional module for the MA English Literary Studies, taught by those contributing to the programme in a given year, will introduce you to the key critical, theoretical, historiographical and conceptual debates surrounding the study of genre. It will emphasise the issues which have been central to current scholarship on genre, and consider how literary and cultural texts have employed, combined, and subverted the formal conventions of genre.

This module approaches Shakespeare from a number of perspectives. It thinks about Shakespeare now: how his plays continue to be performed and adapted, on stage and for the screen, in the UK and abroad, and about how Shakespeare is continually being reinvented by being freshly edited, abridged, translated, reworked by novelists, or reinterpreted by new generations of critics. The module also thinks about Shakespeare in his own time – the Renaissance world in which his plays were first written and performed – and about how Shakespeare approached his own past: medieval England, ancient Britain, classical Rome. The module considers how Shakespeare’s plays lived on after his death, through the closure of the theatres during the civil war, to their revival by Restoration theatre-managers, appropriation by eighteenth-century editors and celebrated nineteenth-century productions. The module will enable you to consider how Shakespeare approached his own culture, and how he has been received and remade by different cultures at different times since. You will engage with recent critical thinking about, for example, early modern playhouses and original practice; reading the medieval past in the early modern; adaptation and appropriation; the Shakespearean cultural industry; ‘Global’ Shakespeare. The module will be taught by all those contributing to the MA in a given year.

This module approaches Shakespeare from a number of perspectives. It thinks about Shakespeare now: how his plays continue to be performed and adapted, on stage and for the screen, in the UK and abroad, and about how Shakespeare is continually being reinvented by being freshly edited, abridged, translated, reworked by novelists, or reinterpreted by new generations of critics. The module also thinks about Shakespeare in his own time – the Renaissance world in which his plays were first written and performed – and about how Shakespeare approached his own past: medieval England, ancient Britain, classical Rome. The module considers how Shakespeare’s plays lived on after his death, through the closure of the theatres during the civil war, to their revival by Restoration theatre-managers, appropriation by eighteenth-century editors and celebrated nineteenth-century productions. The module will enable you to consider how Shakespeare approached his own culture, and how he has been received and remade by different cultures at different times since. You will engage with recent critical thinking about, for example, early modern playhouses and original practice; reading the medieval past in the early modern; adaptation and appropriation; the Shakespearean cultural industry; ‘Global’ Shakespeare. The module will be taught by all those contributing to the MA in a given year.

The core course for the MA, convened on a multidisciplinary basis, and taught by all those contributing to the MA in a given year, will introduce students to the key theoretical, historiographical and conceptual debates surrounding the study of the long eighteenth century. It will emphasise the gender issues which have been central to the revision of scholarship on the period over the last quarter century.