Postgraduate Course: Core Themes and Texts in Transatlantic Study (CLLC11005)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Common Courses (School of Lit, Lang and Cult) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will adopt a thematic approach allowing for a detailed exploration of textual and visual representations of the contrasts, comparisons, contradictions and paradoxes of Atlantic cultures. Patterns of movement and migration and the ways in which cultures are transmitted, translated and transformed through contact with other cultures will provide a coherent framework within which to study the diverse range of topics to be covered. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Relevant book purchases. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| to follow. |
Assessment Information
| One essay of 4000 words. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
Week 1: New Starts and Old Burdens
Professor Susan Manning
de Crèvecoeur, Hector St John, Letters from an American Farmer (1782) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Week 2: Routes and Roots
Dr Keith Hughes
Phillips, Caryl, Crossing the River (London: Faber, 2000)
Week 3: Fashioning Spanish America
Dr Iona Macintyre
Andrés Bello, Allocution to Poetry in Selected Writings of Andrés Bello, trans. Frances M. López Morillas (Oxford: OUP, 1997) or in the original Spanish, 'Alocución a la poesía' (London, 1823) http://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Alocuci%C3%B3n_a_la_Poes%C3%ADa
Week 4: Bridging the Divide
Dr Fiona Mackintosh
Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch, trans. Gregory Rabassa (NY: Pantheon, 1987 [1966]) (multiple copies in the university library), or in the original Spanish, Rayuela, ed. Andrés Amorós (Madrid: Cátedra, 1988).
Week 5: Corresponding Nostalgia, Buenos Aires and Paris
Dr Fiona Mackintosh
Edgardo Cozarinsky, Urban Voodoo (Lumen Books, 1990), or in Spanish, Vudú urbano (Barcelona: Anagrama, 1985; Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2002; 2007)
Week 6 INNOVATIVE LEARNING WEEK
Week 7: Tourists and Pilgrims
Professor Susan Manning
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (Oxford World's Classics, 2002)
Week 8: Tourists and Colonials
Dr Andrew Taylor
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (1988)
Week 9: Migration and Loss
Dr Claudia Nocentini
Melania G. Mazzucco, Vita, translated by Virginia Jewiss (Picador, 2006)
Week 10: The Immigrant as Hermaphrodite
Dr Claudia Nocentini
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002)
Week 11: Transculturation to Creolisation
Dr Michelle Keown
Derek Walcott, Omeros (Faber and Faber, 1990)
The second Essay assignment of 4000 words is due by 4pm on Thursday 11th April 2013. |
| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | CTaT |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Fiona Mackintosh
Tel: (0131 6)50 8303
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Course secretary | Miss Natalie Carthy
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
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