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Undergraduate Course: Prose Fiction in Comparative Perspective (CLLC08001)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaCommon Courses (School of Lit, Lang and Cult) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis 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 Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Full Year, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CentralLecture1-22 10:00 - 10:50
CentralLecture1-22 12:10 - 13:00
First Class Week 1, Tuesday, 10:00 - 10:50, Zone: Central. 7 Bristo Square - Lecture Theatre 3
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours:Minutes
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
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
KeywordsLiterature European Prose Comparative
Contacts
Course organiserMr Bjarne Thomsen
Tel: (0131 6)50 4022
Email: Bjarne.Thomsen@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Jocelyn Proctor
Tel: (0131 6)50 3635
Email: jocelyn.proctor@ed.ac.uk
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