Undergraduate Course: Renaissance Poetry (LLLG07049)
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 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
Home subject area | Lifelong Learning (LLC) |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.
The centrepiece of this course will be three weeks on Shakespeare's unsurpassed but difficult Sonnets (c.1594-1604). We will put Shakespeare's work in context by exploring the origins of Renaissance verse in the titanic achievements of Dante and Petrarch, the tormented soul of Michelangelo, and Shakespeare's direct precursors: the witty Sir Philip Sidney, adored across Europe as the perfect 'Renaissance Man'; and the devout Platonist Edmund Spenser. This course encompasses some of the greatest poetry ever written.
Foreign texts will be studied in translation with the original in parallel.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Delivery period: 2013/14 Lifelong Learning - Session 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: 0 |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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Additional Notes |
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Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
* delineate the main genres of Renaissance verse;
* analyse the use of complex language in Renaissance verse;
* situate Renaissance verse in its cultural and political context. |
Assessment Information
2000 word essay submitted after the course finishes, worth 100% of the total course mark. |
Special Arrangements
None |
Additional Information
Academic description |
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Syllabus |
Week 1: The Godfather of Renaissance poetry: excerpts from Dante's Inferno (c.1315)
Week 2: The birthpangs of Renaissance love-poetry: Petrarch's sonnets with translations with Sir Thomas Wyatt and other Tudor writers
Week 3: The torments of art: sonnets by Michelangelo to a beautiful young man
Week 4: Classical passions: Ronsard, the French court, and Mary Queen of Scots
Week 5: Witty, doomed love: Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella (1579)
Week 6: Courtship and marriage: Edmund Spenser's Amoretti (c.1590)
Weeks 7, 8 and 9: The greatest love poetry ever written: Shakespeare's Sonnets (c.1594-1604)
Week 10: The religious sonnet: John Donne
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Transferable skills |
Collaborative working.
Group discussion.
Composition of discursive essays.
Understanding of interpersonal relationships. |
Reading list |
Essential
Greenblatt, S. ed., 2012. The Norton Anthology of English Literature vol. 1. New York: W. W. Norton.
Musa, M. ed., 2002. Dante, the Divine Comedy Vol. 1: The Inferno. London: Penguin.
Mortimer, A. ed., 2002. Petrarch: Canzoniere. London: Penguin.
Recommended
Norbrook, D. and Woudhuysen, H., 1993. The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse. London: Penguin.
Norbrook, D., 2002. Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance. Oxford: OUP.
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Study Abroad |
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Study Pattern |
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Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Caroline Bamford
Tel: (0131 6)50 4322
Email: Caroline.Bamford@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
Email: D.McMillan@ed.ac.uk |
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