Undergraduate Course: Dante's Comedy and the Commentary Tradition (ELCI10009)
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 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | European Languages and Cultures - Italian |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course makes use the electronic database of Dante commentaries at the Dartmouth Dante Project (http://dante.dartmouth.edu/) to examine the changes in expository practice and critical development surrounding a text which has had a seven-hundred year continuous tradition of exegesis. The taught part of the course will look at key evolutions in this tradition, comparing them to analogous developments surrounding other canonic texts, whilst the student contribution will be in the form of a chronological and analytical review of approaches to a specific critical locus chosen by the individual candidate. Full technical and conceptual use will be made of the search capabilities of the textual database. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Familiarity with the dynamics of complex interdependent scholarly traditions; confidence in the manipulation of large-scale textual data; the ability to create independently produced models of chronological and ideological development in literary scholarship. |
Assessment Information
Seminar exposition plus a semester paper using the database findings (40% of final assessment)
Examination of two hours (60% of final assessment) |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Keywords | History of criticism; paratext; medieval Italian literature; textual databases. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Federica Pedriali
Tel: (0131 6)50 3642
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Course secretary | Mrs Jacqueline Barnhart
Tel: (0131 6)50 4026
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