Undergraduate Course: Fiction from the Deep: Victorian fathers and the Svevo (Copernican) revolution (Ordinary) (ELCI09007)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | European Languages and Cultures - Italian |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Svevo is the Italian byname for heightened humour and ambiguity. His "Coscienza di Zeno" (1923) remains one of the most approachable and yet thoroughly challenging classics of European Modernism.
In taking up the challenge, this course explores how a struggle with the father, which started in pre-Kafkian fashion with the early works, can turn into autonomy from all fathers and pre-postmodernist humour in the later major fiction.
From Schopenhauer to Freud, in Svevo all authority is dealt a blow. The course employs a variety of methodological approaches to analyse how that effect is achieved in the texts. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | This course is open to Ordinary Students only. |
| Additional Costs | None |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| (a) to demonstrate sound knowledge and understanding of the subject; (b) to construct coherent arguments which demonstrate an awareness of the problems posed by the texts; (c) to apply competently relevant concepts from literary theory. |
Assessment Information
One degree examination (70% of total assessment).
Two oral presentations, with written submission (700 words each); one essay (2,000 words) (30% of total assessment). |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Federica Pedriali
Tel: (0131 6)50 3642
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Course secretary | Mrs Jacqueline Barnhart
Tel: (0131 6)50 4026
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