Undergraduate Course: Edinburgh in Fiction/Fiction in Edinburgh (ENLI10310)
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 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/undergraduate/current/honours |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will examine the city in history as represented in fiction in the particular case of Edinburgh, from the historical fiction of Scott, Hogg and Stevenson to the genre fiction of the last two decades. It will examine the construction of the city in these texts as a site of legal, religious, economic and cultural discourse. The extent to which civic identity both contributes to and competes with national identity will be a central theme, as will the internal division of the city along lines of religion, gender, and, especially, class. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 15 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Seminar | | 1-11 | | | | | 09:00 - 10:50 |
| First Class |
Week 1, Friday, 09:00 - 10:50, Zone: Central. The first seminar will be held in Room 6.11 on the sixth floor of the David Hume Tower. |
| Additional information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s). 1 hour a week attendance at Autonomous Learning Group - times to be arranged |
| No Exam Information |
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 16 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Seminar | | 1-11 | | | 09:00 - 10:50 | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Wednesday, 09:00 - 10:50, Zone: Central. The first seminar will be held in Room 1.13, first floor, left-hand flat, 18 Buccleuch Place. |
| Additional information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s). 1 hour a week attendance at Autonomous Learning Group - times to be arranged |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
In addition to the skills training common to all English Literature Honours courses (essay-writing, independent reading, group discussion, oral presentation, small-group autonomous learning) this course aims to develop the student's understanding of
(i) the ways in which urban space is constructed in the various discourses of the novel as a genre;
(ii) the relation of civic identities to national identities as the novel brings them into relation;
(iii) a broad understanding of the history of the novel in Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Assessment Information
| One course essay of 2,500 words (25%) and one take-home exam essay of 3,000 words (75%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Martin Philip
Tel:
Email: mphilip@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3612
Email: j.haigh@ed.ac.uk |
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