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

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
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

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 16
Course Start	Lifelong Learning - Session 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 19, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 79 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	one 2000 word essay
Feedback	students are given the opportunity to submit a practice essay in week six, feedback on which is returned in week seven
No Exam Information

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