Postgraduate Course: Exploring the Novel (ENLI11200)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | *This course is not available to any students outside of LLC*
This course will examine a range of novels from a variety of periods and introduce students to various critical debates surrounding the form. We will examine selected works with a particular emphasis on questions such as: are there specific formal elements that characterize those narratives we call 'novels' and if so, what might they be? What is meant by terms such as 'realism' 'modernism' 'romanticism' 'bilgungrsroman' and what might be at stake in debates over how these terms are defined? What are the uses and limitations of such terms and the narrative elements they describe and inscribe? Is it significant that the history of the novel in Britain coincides with the rise of women as fictional subjects and female authorship? Do novels produced in other cultural contexts rely on slightly different formal elements?
Places on this course will be offered to students on the MSc in Creative Writing in the First instance. |
| Course description |
WEEK 1: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
WEEK 2: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
WEEK 3: Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
WEEK 4: Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
WEEK 5: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
WEEK 6: READING WEEK
WEEK 7: George Eliot, Middlemarch
WEEK 8: Eugene McCabe, Death and Nightingales
WEEK 9: Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
WEEK 10: John Fowles, The French Lieutenant¿s Woman
WEEK 11: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
The above-listed works of fiction will be supplemented by secondary readings available on LEARN. Most, although not all, will be taken from the course's secondary reading list.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students on LLC MSc programmes get first priority to this programme. If you are not on an LLC programme, please let your administrator or the course administrator know you are interested in the course. Unauthorised enrolments will be removed. No auditors are permitted. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 26 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% coursework
10% Class participation/reading journal
20% abstract/commentary
70% final essay
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| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Acquire knowledge of a range of works from a variety of periods and gain a firmer sense of the history of the form and its accompanying criticism.
- Be able to demonstrate familiarity with critical and theoretical debates surrounding terms such as 'realism' 'modernism' 'romanticism' and so on and will have been encouraged to consider how these ideas and debates might deepen one's understanding of narrative form.
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Reading List
WEEK 1: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
WEEK 2: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
WEEK 3: Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
WEEK 4: Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
WEEK 5: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
WEEK 6: INNOVATIVE LEARNING WEEK
WEEK 7: George Eliot, Middlemarch
WEEK 8: Eugene McCabe, Death and Nightingales
WEEK 9: Abstract Commentary Due; Reading catch-up & essay research week
WEEK 10: John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
WEEK 11: Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
WEEK 1: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
WEEK 2: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
WEEK 3: Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
WEEK 4: Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
WEEK 5: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
WEEK 6: READING WEEK
WEEK 7: George Eliot, Middlemarch
WEEK 8: Eugene McCabe, Death and Nightingales
WEEK 9: Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
WEEK 10: John Fowles, The French Lieutenant¿s Woman
WEEK 11: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Allyson Stack
Tel: (0131 6)50 4290
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Course secretary | Mrs Lina Gordyshevskaya
Tel:
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