Comparative Literature and Culture and English

About this course

Comparative literature and culture combined with English is a degree that takes literary study beyond the boundaries of a single national tradition and opens it to the full range of human storytelling across languages, periods, and cultures. English literature provides rigorous training in the close reading, critical analysis, and argumentative writing that all literary study demands, rooted in one of the richest and most widely studied literary traditions in the world. Comparative literature and culture widens that perspective, developing the conceptual tools to compare and contrast texts from different literary systems, to read across periods and genres, and to engage with visual art, film, and other cultural forms alongside literary texts. The three-year full-time Comparative Literature and Culture and English programme at Royal Holloway, University of London gives you access to a wo

Where its graduates go

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