History, Time and Memory in the Contemporary Novel (U03786)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-4-U03786

This course will explore the engagement of recent and contemporary novelists with questions of history, time and memory. It will address questions of time and narrative in contemporary fiction, examining the ways in which contemporary writers have experimented with narrative sequence and narrative tense, and looking at the use of narrative and temporary conventions such as the one-day novel. It will also address the preoccupation in contemporary fiction with the rewriting of earlier texts,as a transmission of literary knowledge and as a dialogue between past and present texts. It will further address questions of history and memory, particularly ass these relate to the major historical events of the twentieth century, above all the world wars. In this context, the course will explore the lterary and critical concern with issues of memory and forgetting, with narrative evasion and repression, and with the relationship between private and public memory. The course will also explore concepts and theorisations of postmdoernism, and the ways in which its definitions have shifted towards a new critical concern with ethics and time.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Costs : Essential course texts.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 1 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Friday	11:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students completing this course will gain:
*Knowledge of a broad range of recent and contemporary fiction.
*An understanding of the ways in which contemporary writers are engaging with the work of their literary predecessors.
*An awareness of literary, critical and theoretical approaches to questions of time, memory and history.
*The ability to connect questions of narrative structure and narrative temporality with the central themes of time, history and memory.