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Postgraduate Course: Contemporary American Fiction (ENLI11022)

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 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaEnglish Literature Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionContemporary American Fiction is an introduction to the American novel of the last twenty years; the course emphasises the unique cultural diversity of recent American writing, and seeks to promote its aesthetic value while understanding that value within debates about cultural politics: how does one assess the artistic merit of individual texts within a 'multicultural' context where the idea of 'American' national identity is profoundly contested?
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Purchase of essential texts as required.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
No Classes have been defined for this Course
First Class First class information not currently available
Additional information 2 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s). Tues 9-10.50 and 3-3.50
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, the successful student will have acquired a good close textual knowledge of nine radically different recent American novels; the student will also have a knowledge of how these novels are situated in terms of arguments about American cultural politics (especially the heterogeneity of American society) and will have some understanding of contemporary debates and politics and aesthetics as those debates are given a focus by recent American fiction. The successful student will also have acquired transferable skills that are integral to this course.
Assessment Information
One essay of 4,000 words.
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
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Ken Millard
Tel: (0131 6)50 8304
Email: K.Millard@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3612
Email: j.haigh@ed.ac.uk
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