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 |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | 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.
*This course is taught jointly with undergraduate students and consequently postgraduate places are limited |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential course texts. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 3 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
1 essay of 4,000 words |
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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.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Special Arrangements |
Jointly taught with undergraduate students (ENLI10178)
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| Keywords | PTCRL |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Randall Stevenson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4288
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Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
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