Master in Literature and Culture

The Master in Literature and Culture, whose emphasis is on the study of Latin American literature, especially Colombian literature, has as its central axis the study of the discipline in its relationships with culture, in line with the most recent approaches to literary theories. and cultural. They conceive literary discourses in a systemic relationship with the multiple discourses of society and culture, without losing sight of the importance of their aesthetic particularity. The literary fact is understood throughout the communicative circuit: the textual production in a cultural space, the text and its link with other texts of the culture, and its modes of circulation. Literature is, in addition to being an aesthetic element, a particular cultural document, a space for reflection, the possibility of knowing our realities. In this way, dialogue between literature also fosters dialogue between cultures and intracultural dialogue. As the fundamental purpose of the master's degree is the training of researchers, from the second semester the curriculum encourages the formulation of a research project that will be developed throughout schooling. It is a flexible pensum, which allows choosing between different orientations of literary studies derived from the literary research lines of the Caro y Cuervo Institute, directed by renowned researchers-teachers.