入学要求 Requirement：
学术要求：Normally an upper second-class or equivalent degree in English Literature, or sufficient proof of ability for the course.
For information on international equivalent qualifications, please see our International Office website.
英语要求：IELTS score7.0 in all bands
学费 Tuition Fee：2011-2012 overseas £12,400
课程特征 Course Features：
This MA is designed to develop and test your literary critical skills, to deepen and broaden your knowledge of English literature, and to allow you to participate in a research community.
Taught elements are concentrated in four areas: Medieval and Early Modern English Literature; Shakespeare and English Literature; Romanticism; and Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Optional taught units can also be chosen. You can choose units across the four main areas or designate one area as your 'pathway'. One pathway unit in the second semester may be replaced by the 'Half-Day Academic Conference Unit' for which you will present a paper at a half-day conference.
课程内容 Course Content ：
First Semester
•Introduction to Literary Research (core unit)
•Pathway Unit
Second Semester
•Pathway Unit
•Second Pathway Unit or Half-Day Academic Conference Unit
•Half-Day Academic Conference Unit or Third Pathway Unit or Optional Unit
Dissertation
Following successful completion of the taught course, you must complete a dissertation of 15,000 words maximum.
Pathways
Available units will vary from year to year
Medieval and Early Modern English Literature
•Court and City 1
•Court and City 2
Shakespeare and English Literature
•Shakespeare and Literary Relations (semester 1)
•Hamlet: Text and Interpretation (semester 2)
•Intertextual Shakespeare (semester 2)
Romanticism
•Romantic Poetry and Poetics (semester 1)
•Romantic Genres, Language and Aesthetics (semester 2)
•Romanticism, History, Politics (semester 2)
Modern and Contemporary Poetry
•British Poetry: 1900-1945 (semester 1)
•British Poetry: 1945-Present (semester 2)
•Twentieth-Century American Poetry (semester 2)
Optional Units
•Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
•Freud and Shakespeare
•How Poets Work
•Introduction to Old English
•Literature and Medicine
•Making It New: Classical Poetry in English
•Medieval English Drama
•Paradise Lost
•Place in Victorian and Recent Fiction
•Postcolonial Imaginings
•Thomas Hardy's Fictions
•Victorian Poetry: Doubt, Belief and Dissent
•Women and Writing
•Half-Day Academic Conference
教学与评估 Teaching and Assessment：
Unit of Assessment 57 applies. See Complete RAE listings for University of Bristol for further details