Undergraduate Course: Prose Fiction in Comparative Perspective (CLLC08001)
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 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
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 | This course is designed to introduce students to the variety of forms of prose narrative in European languages, and to develop reading strategies that are sensitive to cultural context. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Full Year, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-22 | | 10:00 - 10:50 | | | | | Central | Lecture | | 1-22 | | | | 12:10 - 13:00 | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 2:00 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the students will:
- Have gained an awareness of the variety of prose narrative in European languages
- Have gained a sensitivity to genre and narrative
- Be able to employ an understanding of cultural context in reading
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Assessment Information
| One coursework essay (2,000-2,500 words) (50%) and one two-hour examination (50%). It is not allowed to answer in the examination on topics or texts explicitly dealt with in the 1st semester coursework essay. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
The programme will vary from session to session, depending on staff availability, but the aim is to ensure that each of the DELC language areas is represented by at least one teaching block. The course will be delivered using texts in English translation, and the texts used will be readily available in translation. |
| Syllabus |
The course is team-taught, the programme consisting of a range of texts selected from the list below (plus others that become available as staff return from leave), and taught in two-, three- or four-week blocks, as appropriate.
German:
Dr Mary Cosgrove / Dr Peter Davies
Franz Kafka, The Trial (Oxford World's Classics, 2009) (PD)
W.G. Sebald: The Emigrants (London: Vintage, 2002) (MC)
Italian:
Dr Davide Messina
Giuseppe di Lampedusa: The Leopard
French:
Prof Peter Dayan / Dr Véronique Desnain/ Prof Jean Duffy / Dr Séverine Genieys-Kirk / Dr Marion Schmid
Two or three from:
George Sand, Indiana (Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2008), translated by S. Raphael (PD)
Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2009), translated by C. Slater (PD)
Balzac: Le Père Goriot (MS)
Zola: Thérèse Raquin (MS)
André Gide: The Counterfeiters (Penguin Classics,1990) (JD)
Madame de Villedieu, Mémoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière, edited and translated by Donna Kuizenga, University of Chicago Press (2004). (SG-K)
Mme de Graffigny, Letters from a Peruvian Woman, translated by
J. Mallison, Oxford World's Classics (2009). (SG-K)
Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves, tr. Robin Buss (Penguin Classics, 2004) (VD)
Czech:
Dr Alexandra Smith
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Spanish:
Dr Alexis Grohmann / Dr Fiona Mackintosh
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Painter of Battles (London: Orion, 2008) (AG)
The Picador book of Latin American short stories, ed. Carlos Fuentes and Julio Ortega (London: Macmillan, 1998)(FM)
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph (Penguin Modern Classics, 2000) (FM)
Scandinavian:
Dr Bjarne Thomsen
One or two of:
C. J. L. Almqvist, Sara Videbeck (Cornell University Press, 2009)
Søren Kierkegaard, The Seducer's Diary (Penguin (Great Loves), 2007)
Knut Hamsun, Hunger (Penguin Classics, 1998, or Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008). |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
see above |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Literature European Prose Comparative |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Bjarne Thomsen
Tel: (0131 6)50 4022
Email: Bjarne.Thomsen@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Jocelyn Proctor
Tel: (0131 6)50 3635
Email: jocelyn.proctor@ed.ac.uk |
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