Literature

On our Integrated Masters in Literature you draw on key texts, core theories and concepts, and develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. You've read the classics, but you want a fresh take on literature, old and new. Perhaps you want to explore particular genres, themes or periods of literature in more depth; or perhaps you want to discover that your new favourite author is someone you've never heard of before.

Studying literature widens your horizons, sharpens your critical skills, develops your writing ability, and introduces you to the great cultures, thoughts, ideas and imaginations of the world. Studying at Essex will challenge and revolutionise the way you think about literature. We'll invite you to reflect on how literature shapes, and is shaped by, the world.

Drawing on key texts, core theories and concepts, you'll develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills that will help you make your own mark. On our four-year MLitSt Literature, you will be part of an interdisciplinary department where literary critics work alongside practising poets, dramatist, film-makers, novelists and journalists.