Comparative Literature

Education facts

Code: LVGAF3

Module 1 Literary Theory, Methods and Practice introduces literary theory and method, literary analysis and interpretation as well as the history of poetics and literature teaching methodology. Module 2 Survey of the History of Western Literature surveys and critically reviews the history of literature till 1900. Module 3 Perspectives on Literature establishes a tentative and experimental approach to 20th century literature through adopting a number of perspectives. Module 4 Reading Strategies and Contemporary Fiction focuses on fiction with an emphasis on non-Western literature. Theoretical perspectives on the relation between writer, text, reader and contexts are treated. In addition, some examples of critical and analytical discourses on literature are studied.

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Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Comparative Literature

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %