Undergraduate Course: An English Heritage: Nativism, Language and History in the Work of Four Post-war Poets (ENLI10239)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will explore the work of four post-war English poets in relation to their shared concerns both with Englishness and with arguments concerning the nature of English poetic tradition. It will focus on works from the oeuvres of the four poets in which these issues are raised as matters of style, prosody and theme, and will also, where appropriate, address those works through the critical and other controversies to which they have given rise. Of consistent interest will be the ways in which this poetry is situated in relation to the challenge and legacies of international modernism, and how in the light of this relation it tackles the issue of a 'native' tradition in English poetry. This concern will be informed in turn by two further significant questions: firstly, the importance that ought to be accorded to the non-metropolitan status of this poetry, and a related interest in non-standard Englishes; secondly, the relevance for this poetry of postwar political and cultural disputes regarding the writing of English history. |
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 15 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 24,
Other Study Hours 12,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
160 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
1 hour per week Autonomous Learning Group
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
10 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
1 course essay of 2,500 words (30%,)
1 practical assessment (10%)
plus 1 take-home examination essay of 3,000 words (60%) |
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- demonstrate a good knowledge of the work of the four poets;
- comment knowledgeably on the style and prosodic details of the poetry studied;
- show an awareness of relevant critical controversies surrounding some of these bodies of work;
- demonstrate a familiarity with relevant aspects of the postwar 'English question'
- assess the significance of dialect or non-standard English for this poetry's engagement with the issues
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof James Loxley
Tel: (0131 6)50 3610
Email: |
Course secretary | Mrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: |
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