Postgraduate Course: Contemporary American Fiction (ENLI11022)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Contemporary American Fiction is an introduction to the American novel of the last twenty years; the course emphasises the unique cultural diversity of recent American writing, and seeks to promote its aesthetic value while understanding that value within debates about cultural politics: how does one assess the artistic merit of individual texts within a 'multicultural' context where the idea of 'American' national identity is profoundly contested?
*This course is a preferred fiction option course for MSc Creative Writing students, and first priority will be given to students on this programme. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Purchase of essential texts as required. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 15 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
One essay of 4,000 words. |
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Learning Outcomes
| By the end of this course, the successful student will have acquired a good close textual knowledge of nine radically different recent American novels; the student will also have a knowledge of how these novels are situated in terms of arguments about American cultural politics (especially the heterogeneity of American society) and will have some understanding of contemporary debates and politics and aesthetics as those debates are given a focus by recent American fiction. The successful student will also have acquired transferable skills that are integral to this course.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Special Arrangements |
Postgraduate version of ENLI10172 |
| Keywords | CAF |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ken Millard
Tel: (0131 6)50 8304
Email: K.Millard@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Sophie.Bryan@ed.ac.uk |
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