Undergraduate Course: Booker Prize Novels 6 (LLLG07092)
Course Outline
School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | The Man Booker Prize is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language, and published in the UK. This course will look at selected winners of this prestigious literary prize and evaluate the merit of judging literature in this way. |
Course description |
Booker Prize Novels 6 gives students the opportunity to explore the breadth of literature published after 1969 and to discuss the evaluation of literature using a prize structure. The course also allows the discussion of critical and historical context as well as close analysis of structural and stylistic elements of the winning novels.
We will consider two-time winner Hilary Mantel¿s fictionalised biography of Thomas Cromwell, John Banville¿s musings on the nature of memory in The Sea and Anne Enright¿s exploration of death in The Gathering. We will also explore Ben Okri¿s take on magical realism and Richard Flanagan¿s account of the effects of being a POW on the Burma railway.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate confidence in discussing texts
- demonstrate analytical approach to close reading
- expore the histroical, social and politcal context of literature
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Learning Resources
Compulsory
Mantel, Hilary, 2010. Wolf Hall. London: Fourth Estate.
Enright, Anne, 2008 The Gathering. London: Vintage.
Okri, Ben. 2003, The Famished Road. London: Vintage.
Flanagan, Richard, 2015. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. London: Vintage.
Banville, John, 2005. The Sea. London: Pan Macmillan.
Recommended
Mullan, John, 2008. How Novels Work. Oxford: OUP.
Taylor, Jonathan, 2003. The Man Booker Prize: 35 years of the best in contemporary fiction. London: The Booker Prize Foundation.
Todd, Richard, 1996. Consuming Fictions: The Booker Prize and Fiction in Britain Today. London: Bloomsbury.
Roberts, Gillian, 2011. Prizing Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Web resources
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Ms Rachael King
Tel:
Email: Rachael.King@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Zofia Guertin
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Zofia.Guertin@ed.ac.uk |
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