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

Course Outline
SchoolCentre for Open Learning CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryDisillusionment, 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:
  1. appreciate the special concerns of anti-hero literature
  2. understand developments of the genre from 1800 to 1940
  3. analyse the works covered on the course in their cultural and historical contexts
Learning Resources
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Rachael King
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Course secretaryMs Kameliya Skerleva
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