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The Contemporary Novel: Practice as Research - MA

University of Kent

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  • Qualification

    MA - Master of Arts

  • Location

    University of Kent - Canterbury Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    05-OCT-26

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

This is an innovative and exciting programme in which you focus on writing a full-length, literary novel of between 90,000 and 150,000 words.Overview:While the aims and objectives remain the same as on any other PhD programme in the humanities, for example, you are expected to contribute new knowledge of some sort, and to explore original, contemporary research questions, you are expected to achieve almost all of this in the novel itself. There is no long critical piece attached to this PhD programme. Instead, you produce a 3-5,000-word essay that works like a preface to your project, linking your concerns with others’, demonstrating your awareness of theme and locating your work within/without one or more traditions etc. You also need to produce a full bibliography. All UK universities and relevant funding councils and bodies (including REF panels) now support the idea that literary novels are research outputs in their own right and in themselves make significant contributions to knowledge. The idea that a novel might ‘know’ something about war that a piece of historical research could not know (in the case of Art Spiegelman’s MAUS, for example), or that philosophy can be undertaken in fiction (as in the work of Borges) is one that we have been embracing at Kent for several years now.You meet regularly with your supervisor and have the opportunity to take part in informal reading groups and research seminars to which students, staff and visiting speakers contribute papers. You also benefit from a series of research skills seminars that run in the spring term, which gives you a chance to share the research expertise of staff and postdoctoral members of the department.

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£ 19,300per year

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University information

University of Kent

University of Kent

  • University League Table

    62nd

  • Campus address

    University of Kent - Canterbury Campus, Canterbury Campus, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NZ, United Kingdom

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  • Subject ranking

    Art & Design

    53rd out of 82 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 243
    103 43%

    71st

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    57.0 57%

    59th

    14

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.10 77%

    60th

    8

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