Postgraduate Course: Contemporary American Fiction (ENLI11022)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all 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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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Contemporary American Fiction is an introduction to the American novel of the last twenty years; the course emphasises the unique cultural diversity of recent American writing, and seeks to promote its aesthetic value while understanding that value within debates about cultural politics: how does one assess the artistic merit of individual texts within a 'multicultural' context where the idea of 'American' national identity is profoundly contested? |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Purchase of essential texts as required. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| By the end of this course, the successful student will have acquired a good close textual knowledge of nine radically different recent American novels; the student will also have a knowledge of how these novels are situated in terms of arguments about American cultural politics (especially the heterogeneity of American society) and will have some understanding of contemporary debates and politics and aesthetics as those debates are given a focus by recent American fiction. The successful student will also have acquired transferable skills that are integral to this course. |
Assessment Information
| One essay of 4,000 words. |
Special Arrangements
| PG Version |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | CAF |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ken Millard
Tel: (0131 6)50 8304
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Course secretary | Miss Natalie Carthy
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
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