Comparative Literature is a discipline that sees textual activity as involved in a complex web of cultural relations. It seeks, according to the editors of The Comparative Perspective on Literature (1988), “to understand literary texts in relation to a variety of other texts including those belonging to other languages and cultures, other disciplines, other races, or the other sex.” The program at The College of Wooster is interdepartmental in character and includes both explicitly comparative courses and courses that focus on a particular national literature, both in the original and in translation.
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- Coherent emphasis on the literature of the West and its empires
- Student body from a wide range of countries (eight in 2008)
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Postgraduate programmes available in English & Comparative Literature
MPhil & PhD in English, Comparative Literature or Modern Languages
MPhil & PhD in Creative Writing
MRes in English
MA in Applied Linguistics: Sociocultural Approaches
MA in Comparative Literary Studies
MA in Creative & Life Writing
Staff research interests
Literature is everywhere
Podcasting and poetry. Advertisements and lines in plays. Speeches and theatre. Manuscripts and marketing. Literature is everywhere in society, and with a Master’s degree in comparative literature, you can work with literature in the precise field you find most interesting.
As a Master’s degree student of comparative literature, you begin at an early stage to shape your competence profile to match your career dreams. During the first term, you choose between focusing on world literature or literary culture and, at a later stage, you have an opportunity to specialise further through your elective subjects.
Literature in theory and practice
The Master’s
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