Undergraduate Course: The Rise of the Anti-Hero (LLLG07088)

Course Outline
School	Centre for Open Learning	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Disillusionment, alienation, existential purposelessness, the search for an alternative morality and many other characteristic troubles and discontents of nineteenth-century European culture form the basis of this course.
Course description	This course will begin with one of the finest French novels, Benjamin Constant's tale of introverted, destructive sexuality, Adolphe (1816); and will continue on to examine a variety of characters such as the Byronic hero in Manfred (1817) and his Russian re-incarnation in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (1840). The writing of Stendhal, Dostoyevsky, Kafka and Camus will also be studied in detail.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: appreciate the special concerns of anti-hero literature understand developments of the genre from 1800 to 1940 analyse the works covered on the course in their cultural and historical contexts