Postgraduate Course: Modern European Fiction (CLLC11029)
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 |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course is designed to explore the specificities of important period in literary, cultural, and social history from a transnational (mainly European) point of view. It is intended to enable students to develop their capacity to analyse texts generally as well as from a more specifically comparatist perspective. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students will consolidate their knowledge of an important period in literary history which they will be able to contextualise in relation to previous and subsequent periods as well as developments in other areas, be they social or cultural. They will be able to engage critically with concepts pertaining to time, space, subjectivity, and narrative innovation. |
Assessment Information
| One essay of 4,000 words. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Recommended Further Reading
General
Bradbury, Malcolm and James McFarlane eds, Modernism: A Guide to European
Literature 1890-1930. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976
Brooker, Peter, ed. Modernism/Postmodernism. London: Longman, 1992
Cohn, Dorrit, Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978
Levenson, Michael, The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. CUP, 1999
Wilson, Edmund, Axel¿s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930. New York: Scribner¿s, 1931
On Proust
Beckett, Samuel, Proust. New York: Grove Press, 1931
Benjamin, Walter, ¿The Image of Proust¿, in Benjamin, Illuminations. London: Pimlicon, 1999, pp.197-210
Bowie, Malcolm, Proust, Jealousy, Knowledge, London: QMC, 1978
Deleuze, Gilles, Proust and Signs. London: Athlone Press, 2000
Genette, Gérard, Figures of Literary Discourse. Oxford: Blackwell, 1982
Minogue, Valerie. Proust: ¿Du côté de chez Swann¿. London: Edward Arnold, 1973
Poulet, Georges, L¿Espace proustien. Paris: Gallimard, 1963
Tadié, J.-Y., Proust et le roman. Paris: Gallimard, 1971
On Joyce
Attridge, Derek, and Daniel Ferrer. Post-Structuralist Joyce: Essays from the French.
CUP, 1984
---, ed., The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990
Richard Ellmann, The Consciousness of Joyce. Toronto: OUP, 1977
Gifford, Don, Ulysses Annotated, 2nd edn, Berkeley: University of California Press,
1989
Kenner, Hugh, Ulysses. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1987
---, Joyce¿s Voices. London: Faber & Faber, 1978
Lawrence, Karen, The Odyssey of Style in ¿Ulysses¿. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1981
On Woolf
Abel, Elizabeth. ¿Narrative Structure(s) and Female Development: The Case of Mrs. Dalloway¿, in Rachel Bowlby ed., Virginia Woolf. London: Longman, 1992, pp. 77-101
Bennett, Joan. Virginia Woolf: Her Art as a Novelist. CUP, 1964
Goldman, Jane. The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf. CUP, 1998
Guignet, Jean. Virginia Woolf and her Works. London: The Hogarth Press, 1965
Rosenthal, Michael. Virginia Woolf. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979
Woolf, Virginia, ¿Modern Fiction¿ and ¿Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown¿ in Virginia Woolf: Collected Essays. London: Hogarth Press, 1966, vols 1 and 2 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | MEF |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sarah Tribout-Joseph
Tel: (0131 6)50 3205
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Natalie Carthy
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
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