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Postgraduate Course: Forged Correspondences: Some Late 20th & 21st Century Poets (Distance Learning) (ENLI11170)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityNot available to visiting 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 descriptionStudents will read one book of poetry per month, in this instance a selection of leading poets of the mid-late twentieth century. On individual blogs they will respond to each text and, in autonomous learning groups, discuss the material in the light of their own process. The emphasis on this course is reading as a writer. Students will submit three sample blogs (each circa 500 words) at intervals throughout the year and, at the end of the year, an essay of 4000 words, based on reading, personal reflection and practice.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Essential Course Texts
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  No Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 16/09/2013
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Students will gain a facility for economy of expression, awareness of the fine nuances of language, acute attention to detail and the ability to take work from an early draft to final polish, skills applicable to all written work.
Assessment Information
4000 word essay (70%) and 3 x 500 word blogs (30%)
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus 1. Elizabeth Bishop: Poems: The Centenary Edition
2. Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground
3. Edwin Morgan, New Selected Poems
4. Ted Hughes: Collected Poems
5. Zbigniew Herbert, The Collected Poems 1956-1998
6. Janet Frame: Storms Will Tell
7. Adrienne Rich, Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998
8. Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven
9. Derek Walcott, Omeros
10. Pablo Neruda, The Essential Neruda
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list A selection of The Paris Review Interviews with writers at www.theparisreview.org
Morgan, Edwin, Nothing Not Giving Messages: reflections on work and life
Heaney, Seamus, Finders Keepers, Selected Prose 1971-2001
Holub, Miroslav, The Dimensions of the Present Moment
Hugo, Richard, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Mandelstam, Osip, The Noise of Time: Selected Prose,
McCully, C.B.,The Poet's Voice and Craft
Middleton, Christopher, Jackdaw Jiving
Neruda, Pablo, Memoirs
Paulin, Tom, The Secret Life of Poems
Rich, Adrienne, What is Found There; notebooks on poetry and politics
Schwartz, Delmore, The Ego is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles
O'Brien, Sean, The Deregulated Muse
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
Keywordscreative writing, online learning, poetry, literary studies
Contacts
Course organiserDr Miriam Gamble
Tel:
Email: mgamble@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Sarah Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
Email: Sarah.Harvey@ed.ac.uk
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