Postgraduate Course: Ways and means: Novella, Novel in Stories, Novel (Distance Learning) (ENLI11166)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
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 |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Students will read one novel or novel in stories per month. On individual blogs they will write up a response to each text and, in autonomous learning groups, discuss the material in the light of their own process. The emphasis on this course is reading as a writer. Students will submit three sample blogs (each circa 500 words) at intervals throughout the year and, at the end of the year, an essay of 4000 words, based on reading, personal reflection and practice. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential Course Texts |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| At the end of the course the students should be able to be aware of the possibilities of the form and considering published works in the light of their own practice. |
Assessment Information
| 4000 word essay (70%) and 3 x 500word blogs (30%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Webinars:
1. Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude
2. Elizabeth Strout: Olive Kitteridge
3. Machado de Assis: Epitaph of a Small Winner
4. Knut Hamsun, Hunger
5. Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English
6. Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter
7. Manuel Puig, Heartbreak Tango
8. Toni Morrison, Love
9. Janice Galloway,Clara
10. Yiyun Li, The Vagrants
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| Transferable skills |
Students will learn to identify and summarise key structural, thematic and linguistic components of a literary text, to synthesise a range of responses to the work, and to compose and structure a coherent and relevant argument. These skills are applicable, in part, to a wide range of written material. |
| Reading list |
A selection of The Paris Review Interviews with writers at www.theparisreview.org
Atwood, Margaret, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Bloom, Harold, How to Read and Why
Calvino, Italo, The Literature Machine
Currie,Mark, (ed) Metafiction
Docherty, Thomas, Reading (absent) Character
James, Henry, The House of Fiction, Essays on the Novel
Kundera, Milan, Testaments Betrayed
Levi, Primo, Other People&©s Trades
Mullan, John, How Novels Work
Oates, Joyce Carol, The Faith of a Writer
Olsen, Tillie, Silences
Spillman, Rob (ed), God and Soldiers, the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | creative writing, online learning, fiction |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dylis Rose
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Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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