Postgraduate Course: Field Full of Folk: Medieval Literature and the Imagination of the World (ENLI11123)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Medieval conceptions of the world, and of humanity and its operation in that world, rest on imaginative assumptions which are often very different from those of today. This course will introduce a varied range of fourteenth and fifteenth century literary texts: allegory, romance, dream vision, meditation, lyric and drama. Through these texts it will begin to explore the medieval imaginative models of the physical and metaphysical world, considering issues such as society, the body, gender, God, time, love and death. Visual imagery and other kinds of writing and commentary will be considered alongside the literary texts, to develop an understanding of the imaginative world from which the literature emerged and which it helped to shape. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students successfully completing the course will develop: a familiarity with a range of medieval literary forms through close study of particular texts; an awareness of some of the dominant images which shaped medieval conceptions of the world; a recognition of how medieval literary texts both draw on and develope these images; an ability to analyse and interpret critically the active engagement of literary texts with medieval models of the world. |
Assessment Information
| One 4,000 word essay to be submitted as specified in the programme handbook |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sarah Carpenter
Tel: (0131 6)50 3608
Email: Sarah.Carpenter@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Kate Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 4114
Email: Kate.Marshall@ed.ac.uk |
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