Master – Letters
- area: Cultures, territories and plural societies in the Indian Ocean
- course: Not applicable
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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.
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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.
Educational contact
ARINO Marc
marc.arino@univ-reunion.fr