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This LibGuide helps students and lecturers of the course Introduction to Literary Studies  in searching for information which you may need to give presentations or write papers in the field of literary theory.

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Search strategies: what, where and how?

Your search strategy defines what you search, where you search and how you perform your search. In the course of your search process you take many decisions that affect the quality of search results and the time needed to get those results.

The main decisions in your search strategy relate to:

• What:  Think through in advance what information you really need: subject, type of information (analysis, news, statistics, opinion, overview etc.), level and recency. The exact terms you are going to use in your search are of crucial importance.
• Where:  What you are looking for determines where you should go to find it: unfortunately there is not one search engine or database that has it all.
• How : There are various methods of searching. The systematic/bibliographic method (using search terms in scholarly databases) and the snow ball method (finding new information related to what you already have) are the most important. The exact application of these methods depends on the options available in the database or search engine.

What kind of sources to use?

The most important sources for literary studies are:

• Articles in academic journals
• Scholarly books, including PhD theses
• Book reviews in newspapers, news magazines and journals
• (Online) text files with primary literature
• Encyclopedias and handbooks
• Foreign language dictionaries  ​

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BA in Literary Studies Utrecht University

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What will I learn?

Our Literary Studies programme was voted the cream of the crop in the 2017 edition of the Selection Guide for Universities. The content of the programme, the lecturers and the workload in particular came in for a lot of praise. For its part, Elsevier, too, once again voted Utrecht University’s Bachelor’s programme in Literary Studies the best in the Netherlands.

From Poems to Fan Fiction

How do we distinguish literary texts from non-literary ones? What role does literature play in society, and what role did it use to play? Students taking Utrecht University’s Bachelor programme in Literary Studies will take a comparative look at literature of all eras, ranging from antiquity to the present time, focusing both on literature in itself and on its relation to other art forms and types of media. This programme takes in everything from epic poems to novels, and from novels to fan fiction.

Without Borders

Walk into a random bookshop and you will find literature written by authors from all over the world. In fact, the chances are that you read all sorts of literature yourself, be it European or Japanese literature, recent works or novels written in the past, poetry, fan fiction, what have you. Our Literary Studies programme will similarly allow you to cross such borders, as literature comes in many languages and represents many different cultures.

Which department am I in?

Full time (3 years).

Expected September 2024

Heidelberglaan 8,

Utrecht Science Park / De Uithof,

3584, Netherlands

Entry requirements

For international students.

Your diploma may be recognised under an international treaty, or based on international comparisons; e.g. :

• a European Baccalaureate from a European school
• an International Baccalaureate
• Zeugnis der Algemeinen Hochschulreife (Abitur)
• 3 GCE A-Levels
• Diploma van Secundair Onderwijs (Belgium)
• US High School Diploma (USA).
• In addition to the completed High School Diploma, we require students to obtain at least 4 Advanced Placements (AP's) of the US College Board, all with a score of -3- or higher.
• Diploma di Superamento dell’Esame di Stato Conclusivo dei Corsi di Istruzione Secondario Superiore (issued by a Liceo classico/ scientifico/ linguistico/scienze umane) (Italy)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

• IELTS is the test preferred by Utrecht University: Minimum score: 6.5 overall band, 5.5 for writing.
• TOEFL, Internet based: Minimum score: 83 with 24 reading, 22 listening, 20 speaking, 17 writing
• Cambridge Certificates: Advanced English or Proficiency in English, minimum score C.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

Bachelor in Literary Studies (BA) - Utrecht University

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Comparative Literary Studies

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Literature in a globalised worldComparative Literary Studies involves the transnational study of literature from a theoretically informed perspective. The Utrecht programme is distinguished by its comparative approach and its concern with the relations between literature and other forms of culture. The main focus is on literature written in West-European languages in the modern period, but attention is also paid to world literature in translation.This Research Master’s programme offers you an excellent balance between linguistic variety and general theoretical perspectives on the nature of literature, its past and its future. As a student in this programme, you will learn to analyse the ways in which literature interacts with (and reflects on) its cultural and social environment against the background of globalisation and new media technologies.A comparative approachThe ‘comparative’ approach characteristic for Utrecht is understood to involve comparison between literary phenomena along three principal axes:transculturality (how does literature reflect and negotiate cultural differences and operate across national borders?)mediality (how does literature work as a medium and relate to other forms of cultural and knowledge production? how are literary phenomena adapted to other media? )memory (how do stories and cultural forms survive across generations and how are they transformed across time?)

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A bachelor's degree in a related field is required. Applicants from non-anglophone countries must provide proof of English proficiency (TOEFL 93 and IELTS 6.5). Admission Deadline: April 1

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Frame – Journal of Literary Studies

FRAME is a biannual journal of literary studies, run by students and former students of Utrecht University, which publishes articles by international theorists along with important lectures, interviews, and critical reviews. Since its establishment in 1984, it is the only Dutch publication forum that allows for a centred discussion on comparative literary studies. FRAME broaches cutting-edge topics in the literary field and has in the past had the opportunity of working with well-known scholars such as Jonathan Culler, N. Katherine Hayles, Mieke Bal, Astrid Erll and Rosi Braidotti. As of 2023, FRAME is a peer-reviewed journal, supervised by an advisory board .

Issues of FRAME are usually centred on a specific theme that resonates with the contemporary literary debate, and the editorial board aims to compile a set of articles that together allow for a fruitful discussion. Additionally, the Masterclass section offers students the opportunity to gain some much-needed publishing experience, as well as valuable guidance during the (re)writing process. The journal furthermore offers room for conference announcements, symposiums or workshop reports, lectures, and interviews.

FRAME is a print publication, that becomes open access two years after publication. To subscribe or order issues of FRAME , click here . For an overview of the bookstores in which FRAME issues can be found, follow this link.

Want to join the board? Feel free to send us an open application (with CV, recent writing sample and motivation) to info [@] frameliteraryjournal.com

Literature, Culture and Society (Literary Studies)

The Master's in Literature, Culture and Society has a unique focus on the ways in which contemporary literature, culture, and society are interlinked and inform and influence each other. You can specialise in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Scandinavian, Slavic, or Spanish studies, thus significantly enhancing your language skills as well as your expertise in literary and cultural analysis to prepare you for professions in cultural industries or education, among others. For students interested in Modern Greek literature, culture, and society, the English language specialisation programme offers the possibility to follow a course in this area.

Literature and culture from a global European perspective

The aim of the programme is for you to become an expert at analysing and querying how literature and culture respond to wider socio-political issues, and how, on the other hand, society may be affected and impacted by literary and cultural products. You will develop key skills in researching and writing about literary studies, specifically in reporting on the dynamics of the interplay and interface between literature and society. You will take courses in your target language and significantly improve your language skills while enhancing your expertise regarding a particular language region.

What characterises the Master's Literature, Culture and Society?

• You can specialise in European literature of your choice, adding depth and focus to your programme. Learn more at  Language Specialisations .
• This Master’s gives you the freedom to tailor the programme to your own interests: We offer over 50 electives in Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Scandinavian and Slavonic literatures, as well as Comparative Literature and New Greek.
• If you choose a language track for which MasterLanguage is available, you will take one module as part of your programme. Courses are organised collaboratively with other Dutch universities and are taught by invited experts, giving you access to internationally leading scholars and giving you the chance to meet students with similar research interests from other universities. Learn more at  MasterLanguage .
• The programme offers you the freedom to explore potential career paths by encouraging you to do an internship at a cultural or literary institution in Amsterdam.
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Unique focus on interplay between literature and society

Choice of a specific language track

Internship possible

Broad selection of courses and priority for MasterLanguage courses

Why study Literature, Culture and Society at the University of Amsterdam?

• The University of Amsterdam is one of the best universities in the world, usually consistently in the top 60 internationally;
• Amsterdam is an international urban hub with a lively literary culture. Drawing inspiration from our surroundings, you will benefit from our connections to and partnerships with publishers, theatres, poetry stages, museums, bookstores, and much more; 
• The Faculty has a lively programme of research seminars in which staff and students have the opportunity to give papers on their work and to meet specialists from other universities and institutions;
• Diverse cultural partners including Perdu, De Balie, Goethe Institut, Cervantes Institute, Research Centre for Material Culture/Museum of World Cultures, Spui25, Stedelijk Museum and many more.

As a graduate of the Master’s Literature, Culture and Society you will be particularly well equipped to work in professions where analysing, researching and reporting on the interface between literature and society, and on cultural issues more widely, are key assets. You will be skilled at navigating and interpreting cultures, or creating culture-based materials and projects, or in education or information services. 

Degree certificate

Literature, Culture and Society is an accredited degree programme of Literary Studies. After successful completion of this programme, you will receive a legally accredited Master’s degree in Literary Studies and the title Master of Arts (MA).

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Date: 7 June 2024 | Time: 10:00-18:00 | Venue: Leiden University (Lipsius Building 1.23) | Organizers: Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University) and María Isabel Marin Morales (University of Groningen) | Open to: PhDs and RMA students; OSL members have first access | Credits: 1 EC Registration for this event opened on February 5th. Please register via THIS LINK. NB: ReMA students are also welcome to […]

Tuesday 16 April 2024, 10:00-10:45 | Academy Building, Leiden Please click here for more details Summary This dissertation explores the ways in which affective responses to disabled bodies are represented and how this invites us to read these bodies aesthetically. I argue that this affective impact can be understood as an affordance, a term I […]

Groningen, 28 February 2024 The OSL seed money grant aims to foster collaboration within and beyond the OSL community. The OSL Board will make € 1000,- available as seed money for the most promising initiative, including for instance: Planning of symposia, workshops and conferences in 2025 or 2026 Publications (e.g. contribution to publishing fees, editing […]

Date: 14 June 2024 Time: 10:00-17:00 Venue: University of Groningen, Academy Building, room A7 Open to: PhDs and RMA students; OSL members have first access Organizers: Dr. Suzanne Manizza Roszak and Dr. Ann Hoag (University of Groningen) Credits: 1-2 ECs Registration VIA THIS LINK will close on May 15. Among contemporary writers of historical fiction […]

4 April 2024 | Utrecht University This session is part of the ‘Critical-Creative Approaches to Health Humanities’ initiative sponsored by OSL and aims to bring together students and scholars working in or with fields related to health humanities, including narrative medicine, aging studies, disability studies, and humanities-based approaches to healthcare issues.

OSL Research Incubator 2024

About the OSL Research Incubator At OSL, we know that traditional funding schemes do not always meet the current needs of researchers. In this regard, we have decided to create a new blue-sky science annual call that will foster and promote research that is not oriented toward immediate output nor driven toward creating a monetary […]

OSL Workshop: Introduction to Digital Philology

Date: 15, 17, 22 and 24 May | Time: 15:00-17:00 (15, 17 and 22 May), 13:00-17:00 (24 May) | Venue: Utrecht University. Exact rooms, see below | Instructor: Dr Gandolfo Cascio (Utrecht University) | Open to: PhDs and RMA students; OSL members have first access | Credits: 1-2 ECs Registration will open VIA THIS LINK on 5 February 2024 NB: Credits can only be awarded to […]

OSL PhD Day 2024: Call for Papers

Dear OSL PhDs and ReMAs, We are excited to announce that the upcoming OSL PhD day will take place at Leiden University, Lipsius Building 1.23 on Friday, 7 June 2024 (10:00-18:00).  The day’s theme will be “Literature and Community.” The program will consist of a keynote lecture by Dr Leila Essa (Utrecht University) and two […]

Ahmed Nuri | Poetics of Modernity as Crisis. Tragedy and Parody in the Twentieth-Century Turkish Novel

This thesis examines the relationship between Turkish modernity and the twentieth-century Turkish novel. With this aim, it focuses on the strong link between the representations of the individual modernity experiences and the narrative modes employed in six selected novels published between the 1940s and the early 1980s: Ülker Fırtınası “Pleiades Storm” (1944) by Safiye Erol, Huzur “A Mind at Peace” (1949) and Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü “The Time Regulation Institute” (1961) by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Tuhaf Bir Kadın “A Strange Woman” (1971) by Leylâ Erbil, Ölmeye Yatmak “Lying Down to Die” (1973) by Adalet Ağaoğlu, and Sessiz Ev “Silent House” (1983) by Orhan Pamuk.

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The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies

List members may be interested in my review essay, “The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies,” recently published by the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry and available via open access .

Here’s the abstract:

Whereas sinology, or the study of Chinese literature in English, has often been identifiable by a Chinese culturism, or belief in Chinese civilization as a coherent whole united by its writing system, this review article looks at five books that could be described as participating in a “translational turn” in Chinese literary studies. Yet even as they make powerful arguments against the fundamental unity and cohesiveness of a diachronic Chinese cultural-political identity in their translingual and translational approaches to scholarship, the books—Carla Nappi’s Translating Early Modern China (2021), Haun Saussy’s The Making of Barbarians (2022), Tze-Yin Teo’s If Babel Had A Form (2022), Yunte Huang’s Chinese Whispers (2022), and Nan Z. Da’s Intransitive Encounter (2018)—risk taking for granted the longevity of China’s participation in globalization and its economic integration with the United States. In light of current changes to the relationship between China, the US, and the world order, this review article reads these books while attempting to think through the gains and pitfalls of the translational turn in Chinese literary studies.

And here’s the first paragraph:

“These foreign forces you are talking about—are they Marx and Engels?” 你说的境外势力是马克思和恩格斯吗? The comment comes from a student leader in a viral video from the late 2022 protests against the zero-Covid policies of the People’s Republic of China, where people had been kept under intermittent lockdowns for 3 years and which was lately responsible for the deaths of at least 10 in an apartment building fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang—because residents were prevented from leaving their homes and fire-fighters were unable to cross barriers from the outside. The protests were tarred with accusations of having been instigated by “foreign forces” 境外势力, in line with recent attempts the Communist Party of China has made under Xi Jinping 习近平 to both stoke nationalism and extol its Marxism, which did not, of course, originate in China. The student’s shouts against the hypocrisies of such contorted logic are an example of the underlying perspective I also find in a handful of recent scholarly books that show the obvious gains but also the potential pitfalls of a global, postcolonial approach to the study of Chinese literature. The books—Carla Nappi’s Translating Early Modern China: Illegible Cities (2021), Haun Saussy’s The Making of Barbarians (2022), Tze-Yin Teo’s If Babel Had A Form (2022), Yunte Huang’s Chinese Whispers (2022), and Nan Z. Da’s Intransitive Encounter (2018)—all argue against assertions of the fundamental unity and cohesiveness of a diachronic Chinese cultural-political identity, even as they take for granted the longevity of China’s participation in globalization and its economic integration with the United States. In light of current changes to the relationship between China, the US, and the world order, I will try to think through these gains and pitfalls (and how we might avoid them) here.

You can read the review article in full here: https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2024.8

Lucas Klein [email protected]

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Book Review: ‘Ascent to Power’ studies how Harry Truman overcame lack of preparation in transition

This cover image released by Dutton shows “Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World” by David L. Roll. (Dutton via AP)

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Harry Truman’s ascension to the presidency after Franklin Roosevelt’s death was a rocky one, and it came at a pivotal time in the nation’s history.

Once a senator who complained that the 32nd president treated him like “an office boy,” Truman left the White House in 1953 as one of the most accomplished presidents. Those events are the focus of David L. Roll’s “Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt’s Shadow and Remade the World.”

Roll’s book is an essential read for those who want to understand a presidency that, as he puts it, “spawned the most consequential and productive events since the Civil War.”

The book begins during the final months of Roosevelt’s time in office, chronicling his failing health and decision to choose Truman as his running mate in the 1944 election. Through meticulous research, Roll illustrates how Truman overcame a lack of preparation to lead the country through the end of World War II and shepherd in a host of domestic and foreign policy reforms.

The liveliest moments of the book come, fittingly, from the time Truman emerges from under Roosevelt’s shadow during his bid for his first full term in the 1948 election.

Roll portrays Truman as a master at populist campaigning who was able to close the gap with Thomas Dewey by focusing on workers, veterans, farmers and Black voters. But he also credits figures like adviser Clark Clifford, as Truman ran against the Republican Party’s record in Congress rather than his opponent.

Roll’s meticulous research and ability to balance multiple voices throughout provides readers with an illuminating portrait of Truman’s rise to the presidency and his time in the office.

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More information about what to do

Do not hesitate to take action.

If you experience sexual or verbal harassment, discrimination, aggression, violence or bullying, don't spend too much time dealing with it! You can talk about it with a tutor, lecturer or study advisor. Would you rather talk to someone else? Then contact Stefan Vuurens, our faculty's contact for inappropriate behaviour. He will be able to help you no matter what.

Inappropriate behaviour beyond our university

If you have had to deal with inappropriate behaviour beyond UU, but you encounter the person(s) involved at UU, feel free to report this via [email protected] .

What happens after you contact us?

• You will receive an invitation for an appointment as soon as possible. That appointment will take place at a discreet location or online via teams, whichever you prefer. We will offer a sympathetic ear, advise you and explain possible follow-up steps.
• Together you decide what to do next. Your call will be registered anonymously.
• Annually, the confidential counsellors publish an anonymous report about the number of reports and their nature. The data cannot be traced back to individuals. The faculty board uses the information from the report for policy to prevent undesirable behaviour.

Other places to go to

You can also contact any of the following bodies at any time:

• Victim Support (in Dutch)
• Centre for Sexual Violence

Stefan can also help you get in touch, if you feel comfortable doing so.

Inappropriate behaviour is any behaviour, action or failure to act that has physical, psychological or social consequences perceived as negative. This includes at least harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, aggression, violence and bullying in the workplace or in the study situation. For a detailed description, see the Code of conduct on the  Social safety  website. Do not hesitate to contact our confidential advisor at any time.

How can I pay attention to social safety myself?

Would you like to learn more about what you can do in undesirable situations, or how you can ensure a socially safe study and working environment? You can attend the Active Bystander  workshop to learn what to do.

A violation of scientific integrity

For a low-threshold confidential discussion about violations of scientific integrity, please contact faculty contact Rick Nouwen:

[email protected] 030 253 8313

Or view the detailed information on scientific integrity.

CURRICULUM COMITTEE Literary Studies

Members 2023-2024.

• dr. Susanne Knittel (chair)
• dr. Michela Borzaga
• Martijn van Beelen (student member)
• Rana Saleh (student member)

The study advisor is a consultative voice in the curriculum committee.

Board of Examiners

• Huub van den Bergh (chair)
• Jo van Cauter
• Dennis Nguyen
• Anne-France Pinget

The Board of Examiners is assisted by the Board's executive secretary, Erna Kamerbeek .

Board of Examiners Regarding: <name programme> Drift 10 3512 BS Utrecht [email protected]

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