MA Modern Languages and Cultures

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MA (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £16,600
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £31,400

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

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This course unit explores representations of otherness in early nineteenth-century French culture. In this period, which was marked by the advent of Romanticism, the rise of orientalism, and France’s colonial expansion, the need to negotiate and rethink the relationship between the French “self” and its “others” was felt, as is documented in a number of fictional texts and visual art forms. In the realm of aesthetics, the concept of couleur locale emerged to frame fictional representations of other cultures and landscapes. Focusing on a range of textual and visual materials, this course unit will contextualize this period concept and seek to rethink it with regard to modern cultural and postcolonial theory.

Pre-requisite: A BA (Hons) degree involving French, or Reading comprehension of French at C1 level or higher of the European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages

• To familiarize students with concepts of couleur locale, otherness, exoticism, orientalism and cultural stereotype.
• To explore selected key features of the Romanticist aesthetics in France.
• To familiarize students with early nineteenth-century French history, culture and literature.
• To encourage and enable students to verbalise and intellectualise their own responses to the texts and images studied