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Comparative Literature

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Downtown Toronto Campus (St. George), Toronto, Canada
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24,960 CADTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

English Language and LiteratureMain Subject Area

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Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto offers M.A. and Ph.D. programs of study in every major area from medieval to contemporary literature with, emphasizing on literary theory and criticism. Students may explore literary achievements in a vast spectrum of national and linguistic traditions, while the Centre’s strong emphasis on modern literary theory gives their studies critical and methodological coherence. To understand literatures and their place within cultures and histories, one needs to initiate dialogues between disparate literatures as well as between literature and its neighbouring cultural spheres. The Centre for Comparative Literature enables research that is among the best and most exciting at the University and that, because it crosses languages and national borders, cannot be done in any other venue.  Working across languages helps to properly appreciate medieval Spain, travel writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Eastern European samizdat publishing, popular culture in Nigeria, or life in Toronto.  But all literature has always been transnational. To properly appreciate phenomena like the nation-state, modern subjectivity, cultural exchange, or capitalist crisis, it is necessary to work across languages.  

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MA

Study Level

Masters

The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto offers M.A. and Ph.D. programs of study in every major area from medieval to contemporary literature with, emphasizing on literary theory and criticism. Students may explore literary achievements in a vast spectrum of national and linguistic traditions, while the Centre’s strong emphasis on modern literary theory gives their studies critical and methodological coherence. To understand literatures and their place within cultures and histories, one needs to initiate dialogues between disparate literatures as well as between literature and its neighbouring cultural spheres. The Centre for Comparative Literature enables research that is among the best and most exciting at the University and that, because it crosses languages and national borders, cannot be done in any other venue.  Working across languages helps to properly appreciate medieval Spain, travel writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Eastern European samizdat publishing, popular culture in Nigeria, or life in Toronto.  But all literature has always been transnational. To properly appreciate phenomena like the nation-state, modern subjectivity, cultural exchange, or capitalist crisis, it is necessary to work across languages.  

Admission Requirements

93+
7+
3+

Jan-2000

Domestic
6,210 CAD
International
24,960 CAD

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