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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : European Languages and Cultures - Italian

Undergraduate Course: Dante's Comedy and the Commentary Tradition (ELCI10009)

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 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaEuropean Languages and Cultures - Italian Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course makes use the electronic database of Dante commentaries at the Dartmouth Dante Project (http://dante.dartmouth.edu/) to examine the changes in expository practice and critical development surrounding a text which has had a seven-hundred year continuous tradition of exegesis. The taught part of the course will look at key evolutions in this tradition, comparing them to analogous developments surrounding other canonic texts, whilst the student contribution will be in the form of a chronological and analytical review of approaches to a specific critical locus chosen by the individual candidate. Full technical and conceptual use will be made of the search capabilities of the textual database.
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
Not being delivered
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Familiarity with the dynamics of complex interdependent scholarly traditions; confidence in the manipulation of large-scale textual data; the ability to create independently produced models of chronological and ideological development in literary scholarship.
Assessment Information
Seminar exposition plus a semester paper using the database findings (40% of final assessment)

Examination of two hours (60% of final assessment)
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsHistory of criticism; paratext; medieval Italian literature; textual databases.
Contacts
Course organiserProf Federica Pedriali
Tel: (0131 6)50 3642
Email: F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Jacqueline Barnhart
Tel: (0131 6)50 4026
Email: Jackie.Barnhart@ed.ac.uk
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