Undergraduate Course: Writing the Body Politic (ENLI10193)
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 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course will examine a selection of texts exploring the reinvention of cultural identity in American poetry from Walt Whitman to the present day. The course encompasses such broad cultural and intellectual movements as "Transcendentalism", "Modernism" and the "Postmodern". The term "body politic", while inescapably cultural and political in its primary emphasis, is also intended to felicitate discussion of those issues of sexuality and gender that inflect cultural and political subjectivities. |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students will benefit from the course's close attention to textual detail and the broader contextual framework within which the texts operate. Issues of cultural identity and value will be examined in a context that also enable students to examine the nature and utility of these more general ideological formations.
The course will enhance students' ability to read critically and comparatively and to engage with an area of specialist research not otherwise available to students at Edinburgh. |
Assessment Information
1 essay of 2,500 words (25%);
one take-home examination essay of 3,000 words (75%) |
Special Arrangements
| Numbers are limited, with priority given to students taking degrees involving English or Scottish Literature and Visiting Students placed by the Admissions Office. Students not in these categories need the written approval of the Head of English Literature before enrolling. In the case of excess applications places will be decided by ballot. |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Lee Spinks
Tel: (0131 6)50 3616
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Course secretary | Mrs Catherine Williamson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3620
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