In October the University is offering a new Master of Arts in ‘Literary tradition and popular culture’ both on a full-time day-programme run over three semesters as well as on a part-time basis.
The programme will seek to explore the complex engagement of popular culture and literary tradition with one another as well as their shared areas of theory and critique. In the process, a series of canonical and popular works will be studied as they are viewed and rewritten from several angles of interpretation, including non-traditional ones.
Lectures and seminars will include the following key areas: comparative literature, cultural theory, theory of literature, film and the literary canon, Biblical literature, modernist literature, postmodernist literature, the literature of the avant-garde, the aesthetics of decline, representations of the Mediterranean and the translation of canonical and popular texts.
Applicants should have any university degree at second class or better. For more information, visit www.um.edu.mt/arts/programme/PMALTCFTT2-2012-3-O.