Master – Letters

  • area: Cultures, territories and plural societies in the Indian Ocean
  • course: Not applicable
  • ECTS credits
    120
  • level of studies
    at the end of training

    Baccalaureate + 5
  • Teaching locations
    Saint-Denis - Moufia Campus
  • Type of training : Master Degrees
  • Training regime: Initial formation

Training summary

The training is composed of lessons in comparative literature, French, French and Creole worlds. It is supplemented by lessons in Modern Foreign Language (LVE), research methodology, a Study and Research Project (TER) in Master 1, an internship and the production of a dissertation in Master 2.

Training objectives

  • Know how to identify the documents and resources necessary for research
  • Be able to read and use theoretical texts, particularly in LVE, and develop a critical capacity with regard to them
  • Be able to carry out transdisciplinary work, linking literature and the other arts
  • Be able to interpret literary texts
  • Acquire critical thinking and an aptitude for analysis, synthesis, interpretation and argumentation

Advantages of the training

This Master offers to develop, strengthen and deepen:
Lknowledge of comparative, French and French-speaking literature
Lrelevant and argued use of the tools and methods of literary criticism
Lmethods of textual analysis
Lliterature research methodology
Lhas the ability to consistently implement and develop a critical and in-depth reading of literary texts
Lautonomy of thought
Lcritical dialogue
Lhas the ability to defend and support his research in public.

Targeted skills

  • Solid command of the written and oral French language
  • Taste for literature and the arts and for the questions they raise
  • Taste for long-term thinking, research and writing
  • Sense of autonomy.

Sheet of the National Directory of Professional Certifications (RNCP n°39494)

Summary of lessons by course

In addition to the LVE, research methodology, the TER and the dissertation, specialty courses are offered:

  • Comparative literature: “The indisciplinarity of the poem”; “Unsaid, forbidden, unspeakable: Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville (USA, 1853) and The Beast in the Jungle (USA, 1903)”; “The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: a ghost story or a fantasy story? »
  • French literature: “Utopia and literature”; “Heroines and victims in Diderot: dialectic of strength and weakness through the prism of gender”; “Theatre and theatricality”; “The question of the sign in literature”; Literature from Creole worlds: “Reunionese poetry from its origins to the present day: history, languages, forms”; 
  • French-speaking literature: “Imaginaries of the crossing in Quebec literature and ultra-contemporary French-speaking Quebec cinema”; “Transmediality: media and narration”; “Bad gender(s): Thinking about women’s violence”; ; “What landscapes do to writing. Elements for a decolonial ecocriticism on the articulation between islands, maritime space, Indian Ocean. »

Internship

Master 2 internship

Specific devices

Not concerned

Conditions of access to training

On file, baccalaureate + 3 or equivalent

Continuing Studies

Doctorate

Career opportunities

  • Specialist journalist
  •  Literary criticism
  •  Cultural projects manager
  •  Advisor in publishing houses, companies and cultural institutions
  •  Part-time teacher in National Education
  •  Book and library professions.

ARINO Marc

marc.arino@univ-reunion.fr
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