Postgraduate Course: Critical Theory: Issues and Debates (ENLI11101)
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 |
English Literature |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course will enable students to begin to explore contemporary critical theory and engage with current debates in the discipline about meaning, identity, history and politics. Parts one and two of the course familiarise students who might be new to critical theory with key ideas, and allow those who already have a sense of the field to work carefully through some of the foundational texts. The third part of the course gives students who by now will be more confident in their understanding of theory to engage explicitly and in a bit more depth with one or two recent debates. It will take the form of an extended analysis and discussion of a particular text, theorist or issue chosen by the course teaching team. Examples of the sorts of topic suitable for this might include: the return to aesthetics, green theory and ecocriticism, the idea of community in contemporary theory, Deleuze and cinema, psychoanalysis and gender, or Derrida and friendship. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Learning outcomes: By the end of the course, students should be able to: demonstrate familiarity with a selection of key figures and central problems of 20th century literary critical theory; to compare and contrast different literary theoretical approaches; to place literary theory in an interdisciplinary context of other theoretical paradigms; to discuss the relationship between critical theory and literary texts. |
Assessment Information
| The course will be assessed by the completion of a 4,000-word supervised essay, the topic of which will be based on debates from, or issues raised by, the course. The essay will be submitted at the end of the semester in which the course runs. |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Simon Malpas
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Simon.Malpas@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Kate Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 4114
Email: Kate.Marshall@ed.ac.uk |
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