Comparative Literature

Study literature from six different continents covering over 2,500 years, comparing literatures from across the world, written in many different languages, in different cultures from antiquity to the present day.

We offer a unique range of options from classical Greek and Latin right up to twenty-first century European, Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and American literature as well as the opportunity to develop your language skills.

Key benefits:

• Exceptional geographical and historical range of literature options.
• Staff who are leading experts in European and World Literatures.
• Thematic approaches.
• Opportunity to study modules from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
• Located in the heart of London, close to libraries and cultural institutions.
• An internationally respected MA that offers a springboard to further study.

2:1 undergraduate degree in an appropriate subject, such as English, Modern Languages, Classics, Cultural Studies, History, Politics or International Relations. Applicants without a literature degree should demonstrate academic engagement with literary study in their application.

MA

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits.

Required Modules:

You are required to take:

• Theorizing Comparative Literature across Cultures: Contemporary Debates (20 credits)
• Dissertation (60 credits)

Optional Modules:

In addition, you are required to take five modules totalling 100 credits from a range of options from within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. At least 60 of these should be from the list of comparative literature modules that may typically include:

• The World Novel (20 credits)
• Culture, Dissent & the Arab Spring (20 credits)
• Melancholia & Hypochondria (20 credits)
• CP Cavafy: the Making of a Modernist (20 credits)
• Queer Connections: Male-Male Desire & the Classical Past (20 credits)
• Translation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism (20 credits)
• Myth after Slavery (20 credits)
• Reading Emotions (20 credits)
• Polyglot Literatures of Modern Egypt: 1900-2000 (20 credits)

If you are a part-time student, you will take Theorizing Literature across Cultures: Contemporary Debates in your first year and your dissertation in your second. If you are a part-time student, you will take 60 credits of optional modules in your first year, and a further 40 in your second.

King's College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study.

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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