Undergraduate Course: Feminising the Word: Woman and Medieval Literature C.1180 - C.1500 (ENLI10098)
Course Outline
School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
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 examines the idea of the female subject, and the literary, cultural, and intellectual roles of women in the period from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries in medieval Britain and Europe. The course is divided into two parts: the first explores how 'Woman' and the idea of the feminine is represented in a variety of medieval modes and genres; the second considers the actual writing of significant women writers. Through a series of detailed readings, students consider how different religious, cultural, and social conditions shaped the diversity of female creativity, and to reflect on whether it is possible to conceptualise a distinctive tradition of women's writing in medieval Europe. |
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- has been introduced to the diversity of medieval literature through exemplary focus on the women and the idea of the feminine
- has been introduced to literature composed in late medieval Scots and English, and to a range of European texts taught in translation
- has developed understanding of the debates known as the querelle des femmes and the querelle de la rose, and some knowledge of the philosophical and intellectual background of 'antifeminism'; and of the ways in which antifeminist ideology is challenged both by imaginative literature and by the voice of a public female 'intellectual' such as Christine de Pisan
- analyse the representation of the female subject in erotic and religious literature
- explore the work of British and European women writers in the genres of romance and fable; prose polemic; mystical writing; and erotic lyric.
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Additional Information
Course URL |
http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/undergraduate/current/honours |
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Special Arrangements |
Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English or Scottish literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature |
Additional Class Delivery Information |
Seminar: 2 hours per week for 10 weeks; plus attendance at Autonomous Learning Group for 1 hour a week - at time to be arranged |
Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Sarah Dunnigan
Tel: (0131 6)50 8304
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Course secretary | Ms Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
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