Postgraduate Course: The Field Full of Folk (Level 11) (ENLI11161)
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 |
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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 images and other kinds of writing and commentary will be considered alongside the literary texts, to develop an understanding of the imaginative world which the literature both emerged from and helped to shape. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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| Central | Seminar | | 1-11 | | 10:00 - 12:00 | | | |
| First Class |
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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
| 4000 Word Essay (100%) |
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 | Ms June Haigh
Tel: (0131 6)50 3612
Email: j.haigh@ed.ac.uk |
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