Postgraduate Course: Statements and Experiments: Pushing the Limits of Novel-ty (ENLI11036)
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 | This course explores some of the key statements on the novel form made by practising novelists, in conjunction with a range of key experimental novels. Authors include Milan Kundera, Italo Calvino, Salman Rushdie, Virginia Woolf, Saul Bellow, Laurence Sterne, Cervantes and Thomas Pynchon. Topics to be explored will include chronology and the management of time in narrative; realism, interiority and nightmare, and metatextuality. The course is designed for Creative Writing students, who will work with both the theories and the practices of a wide range of novelists who have had particular impact on the history of the novel form. |
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
| Students should acquire broad understanding of theories of novel writing, explored in relation to novels drawn from across a wide chronological and formal range. As writers themselves, they should be enabled to reflect critically on other novelists' formulation of key elements of their practice, and thus to raise and refine their critical awareness of their own practice as writers. |
Assessment Information
| One essay of 4,000 words. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Rajorshi Chakraborti
Tel: (0131 6)50 4535
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Course secretary | Ms June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3612
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