Reading the Contemporary: Post-45 American Literature and Culture
Course, Master's level, 5EN523
Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 25 March 2024–2 June 2024
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
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120 credits. English A1, B1 and C1, or 90 credits in a language subject or in literary studies.
- Selection
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All qualified applicants will be admitted.
- Fees
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If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- Application fee: SEK 900
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 12,500
- Total tuition fee: SEK 12,500
- Application deadline
- 16 October 2023
- Application code
- UU-05045
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 22 December 2023–24 March 2024
- Information on registration.
Spring 2024 Spring 2024, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English For exchange students
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 25 March 2024–2 June 2024
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
-
120 credits. English A1, B1 and C1, or 90 credits in a language subject or in literary studies.
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 22 December 2023–24 March 2024
- Information on registration.
About the course
This course offers forceful strategies for exploring US literary culture between the Second World War to the present. Through selected readings of both canonical and less-known texts, it focuses on such crucial issues as the rise and waning of postmodernism, the program era, the Cold War, neoliberalism and finance, the culture of the Anthropocene, the literature of social movements, and narratives of the nonhuman turn. Along the way, we will also discover how new methodologies, periodisations, and thematics have redefined the study of contemporary literature.