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Undergraduate Course: Republican Visions (ENLI10328)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe aim of this course is to explore the various ways in which a number of key modern American writers have interrogated and refashioned the rhetoric and the ideology of the American Republic. To this end, the course begins by identifying and discussing some of the central ideological constituents of the discourse of American republicanism (the idea of American "exceptionalism," the claims of manifest destiny, the rhetoric of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the importance of the tradition of Puritan redemption, and so on). Having established this ideological background, the course proceeds to examine the way that nine writers have drawn upon the historical and cultural repertoire of American republicanism in order to consider the influence of this intellectual inheritance upon contemporary ideas of subjectivity, cultural value and the relationship between politics and ethics.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: ( English Literature 1 (ENLI08001) OR Scottish Literature 1 (ENLI08016)) AND ( English Literature 2 (ENLI08003) OR Scottish Literature 2 (ENLI08004))
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Essential course texts
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. By the end of the course the students will have achieved three specific learning outcomes. First, they will have learnt to identify the various formal constituents of the discourse(s) of American Republicanism. Secondly, they will have developed the ability to interrogate the often complex relationship between the modalities of literary narrative and the forms and structures of historiographical writing. And, third, the course's continuing emphasis upon generic and discursive constructions such as "realism", "modernism", "postmodernism", "historiography" and "ideology" will encourage them to develop a conceptual sophistication that will serve them well in each phase of their Honours education.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Course URL http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/undergraduate/current/honours
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
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.
Additional Class Delivery Information One hour(s) per week for 10 week(s): attendance for one hour a week at Autonomous Learning Group - times to be arranged.
KeywordsRepublicanism America Poetry
Contacts
Course organiserDr Lee Spinks
Tel: (0131 6)50 3616
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Course secretaryMs Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
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