Undergraduate Course: The Making of Modern Fantasy (ENLI10351)
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 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 | How does a genre come into being? In this course we will trace the making of the modern fantasy genre by reading the works ż both creative and theoretical ż of its founding fathers and mothers. Fantasy in its widest definition goes back to the beginnings of human literature, and in its narrowest is a publishing category just several decades old. We will adopt the medium-range view and examine texts that are identifiably żfantasticż in the modern sense, and that are linked together in an attested genealogical chain, but that were mostly written before fantasy emerged as a best-selling type of żgenre fictionż and before it assumed the place in popular culture that it occupies today. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential course texts |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 30 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Seminar | | 1-11 | | | | | 10:00 - 12:00
or 14:00 - 15:50 |
| First Class |
Week 1, Friday, 10:00 - 12:00, Zone: Central. The first seminar will be held in Room 1.12, first floor, left-hand flat, 18 Buccleuch Place. At this meeting students will choose which seminar to attend. |
| Additional information |
1 hour per week for 10 weeks - one-hour autonomous learning group at time to be arranged |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| In addition to the skills training common to all English Literature Honours-level courses (essay-writing, independent reading, group discussion, oral presentation, small-group autonomous learning) this course aims to develop the studentżs understanding of the generic parameters of fantasy writing, of the seminal literary and disciplinary contexts from which it emerged, and the formal and theoretical issues which it raises. |
Assessment Information
| One semester 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 Anna Vaninskaya
Tel: (0131 6)50 4284
Email: avaninsk@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
Email: S.Strathdee@ed.ac.uk |
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