Doctor's Degree in Literature at Duke University |
Duke University
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Duke University is a Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above Research Universities (very high research activity) with 13,598 students in Durham, NC.
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This school offers the following degree levels:
Bachelor degree, Certificates/Postbaccalaureate Certificate, Masters degree, Doctor's degree, First-Professional degree |
| Also, students of this school are eligible for federal aid such as Pell Grants and Direct Loans from the US Department of Education. |
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Duke University
Doctor's degree
Literature
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Program Description
The Literature Program is not comparatist in the traditional sense but theoretical in focus, dedicated to the understanding of cultural history and the reshaping of literary studies in the context of contemporary thought. The program acknowledges the challenges posed by the emergence of non-Western literatures and also by the increasing importance of non-canonical, "marginal" or oppositional cultures within the West. Working with a wide range of contemporary theories or approaches -- feminism, Marxism, cultural criticism, discourse analysis, reader-response theory, the analysis of power and of the social function of ritual and symbolic action -- the Graduate Program in Literature stresses the historicity of such discourses, and of the cultural phenomena they set out to investigate. Our courses also register the increasing significance in the academy of theoretical developments in cultural theory and film theory, as well as other media such as art and architecture. We also explore the connections between literary study and innovations in other disciplines -- anthropology, psychoanalysis, linguistics, art history, religious studies, the history and philosophy of science, law -- which already share some of literature's investment in narrativity, structure, communication, and interpretation.
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