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Postgraduate Course: Baudelaire and Mallarme as Readers of English (CLLC11027)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryPoe is the anglophone writer that Baudelaire and Mallarme read most; they translated his work, and wrote about it, always with the greatest respect. The Option will begin by examining their writings on Poe, and will continue with a study of their translations, particular attention being paid to the implications of the way they present Poe's work in French. We will next study Baudelaire's Paradis artificiels, in which he adapted and commented at length on the Confessions of an English Opium Eater by De Quincey, whom he considered in many ways a spiritual brother of Poe. Then we will move on to Mallarme's two famous articles on Shakespeare's plays. At the end of the course, discussion will focus on the questions: what are the peculiarly "anglo-saxon" qualities which Baudelaire and Mallarme find in Poe, De Quincey and Shakespeare and how do those qualities translate into the French cultural setting? A good reading knowledge of French is required for this course.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed:
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students should reach an awareness of the problems and issues underlying literary translation. Through close analysis of a range of texts, the course will develop comparative, writing and interpretative skills.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsBaMRE
Contacts
Course organiserDr Peter Dayan
Tel: (0131 6)50 8424
Email: Peter.Dayan@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Sarah Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
Email: Sarah.Harvey@ed.ac.uk
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