English and Comparative Literature

About this course

English and comparative literature is a programme that begins with English as its primary literature while insisting that literature cannot be fully understood within a single national or linguistic tradition. Comparative literature asks what happens when you read across languages, cultures and historical periods, examining how stories travel, how meaning shifts in translation, and what universal patterns and striking differences emerge when you place texts from different worlds in dialogue with each other. English and comparative literature combines the depth of a specialist English degree with the breadth and critical sophistication of a comparative approach. At the University of Leeds you will study for three years full-time, with the full range of options across the School of English available to you, including writers from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Canada and the Caribbean, as wel

Where its graduates go

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