It includes the study of medieval and Renaissance rhetorics and consideration of more recent theories of metaphor. Open to graduates with Spanish, this course explores issues arising from the treatment of historical processes, events and personalities in contemporary Spanish theatre, with some reference to film, especially to cinematic adaptations of history plays. Topics covered include literature and linguistic models, narratology, intertextuality, psychoanalysis, sociology of culture, deconstruction, postmodernism, gender studies, and cultural studies. Open to graduates in any relevant discipline, this module provides students with the opportunity to study in greater depth a topic of one of the taught modules, and to explore the cultural, literary, historical or theoretical background of an area of special interest to the student's research. The content of this module cannot be identical to the dissertation topic, but may be related to it.
Instruction is by individual tutorials.
Not available in term I of the student's programme. Preliminary approval of the topic is required from the Committee for the MA in Modern European Languages and Cultures and from the external examiner. Assessment is by one 5,000 word essay written in March. One module offered by another department or school of the University, subject to the candidates' qualifications and to the availability of courses. Permission is required from both Boards of Studies.