Postgraduate Course: Republican Visions (ENLI11142)
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 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
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| Course description | The aim of this course is to explore the various ways in which a number of key modern American writers have interrogated and refashioned the rhetoric and the ideology of the American Republic. To this end, the course begins by identifying and discussing some of the central ideological constituents of the discourse of American republicanism (the idea of American &«exceptionalism,&ª the claims of manifest destiny, the rhetoric of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the importance of the tradition of Puritan redemption, and so on). Having established this ideological background, the course proceeds to examine the way that nine writers have drawn upon the historical and cultural repertoire of American republicanism in order to consider the influence of this intellectual inheritance upon contemporary ideas of subjectivity, cultural value and the relationship between politics and ethics. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| By the end of the course the students will have achieved three specific learning outcomes. First, they will have learnt to identify the various formal constituents of the discourse(s) of American Republicanism. Secondly, they will have developed the ability to interrogate the often complex relationship between the modalities of literary narrative and the forms and structures of historiographical writing. And, third, the course&©s continuing emphasis upon generic and discursive constructions such as &«realism,&ª &«modernism,&ª &«postmodernism,&ª &«historiography&ª and &«ideology&ª will encourage them to develop a conceptual sophistication that will serve them well in each phase of their Honours education. |
Assessment Information
| 4000 Word Essay (100%) |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Lee Spinks
Tel: (0131 6)50 3616
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Course secretary | Ms June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3612
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