Undergraduate Course: Scottish Gaelic Verse: The Making of the Tradition (CELT10016)
Course Outline
School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Taught in Gaelic? | Yes |
Summary | This course examines the anonymous song-poetry which stands in contrast to the 'court' tradition of panegyric and learned poetry of the seventeenth century. Neglected by most of the early collectors, it has been regarded by some critics as containing some of the most powerful Gaelic poetry extant. The course will consider (1) questions of definition, range and subject matter, authorship and transmission; (2) the evidence of the orain luaidh, which raise all these questions in acute form; (3) the relationship between these 'sub-literary' compositions and the rest of the Gaelic tradition; and (4) the assessment of these songs from a literary point of view.
The lecture in the first hour will be delivered in English. The tutorial in the second hour is available in either Gaelic or English, dependent on individual degree programmes. |
Course description |
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Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | Entry to this course is at the discretion of the Course Organiser and will be arranged on a case by case basis by the Visiting Student Office in consultation with the department.
**Please note: this course may be taught in Gaelic**
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Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
Students of this course have the opportunity to explore a branch of Gaelic literature which is sometimes overlooked, and to gain insights into the problems surrounding such issues as genre, orality, metrical and musical form, and popular literature.
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Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Anja Gunderloch
Tel: (0131 6)51 1374
Email: A.Gunderloch@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Christina Bould
Tel: (0131 6)50 3622
Email: Chrisma.Bould@ed.ac.uk |
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