Postgraduate Course: Poor Things: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature (ENLI11038)
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 |
| Course website |
http://www.englit.ed.ac.uk/studying |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course begins in the modernist area familiar from second year, tracing patterns of reification and personification as they appear in literary fiction - and extend later in the twentieth century into cyberpunk, science fiction, and perhaps some film - relating these to the nature and presentation of character and the self. These issues will be considered against a background of developing capitalist industry and technology, with some Marxist theory used where appropriate, especially in the first weeks of the course, to illumine the questions involved. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential course texts. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 3 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Seminar | Room 4.04, 18 Buccleuch Place | 1-11 | | 10:00 - 12:00or 14:00 - 15:50 | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 10:00 - 12:00, Zone: Central. Room 4.04, 18 Buccleuch Place |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students should gain knowledge or arrange of twentieth-century fictions, and of their significance - as reflections, symptoms, analyses, etc - of a range of key social and political pressures. They should gain knowledge of Marxist readings of these pressures, and of their literary transmutations, along with an ability to read literature within historical contexts, and as a revelation of their nature. |
Assessment Information
| 1 essay of 4,000 words |
Special Arrangements
| PG Version |
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 | PTCRL |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Randall Stevenson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4288
Email: Randall.Stevenson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Natalie Carthy
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Natalie.Carthy@ed.ac.uk |
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