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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : English Literature

Postgraduate Course: Seventeenth-Century Poetic Genres (ENLI11055)

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
SummaryThis seminar course will be concerned with main poetic genres of the seventeenth century: namely epigram, eley, ode, epistle, satire, pastoral eclogue, georgic, estate poem, topographical poem, epic. Emergent as well as traditional groupings will be considered, together with their social, historical, and literary contexts. While the emphasis will necessarily be on canonical genres, we may take side glances at other types and subjects: emblems, buildings, gardens, faeries, blackness, grasshoppers.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Essential Course Texts
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course students wil have:

- an understanding of the main generic groupings of English poetry in the long seventeenth century, their topics and forms.

- an understanding of how far seventeenth century genres can be considered as defining classes, and how far looser groupings.

- an understanding of how individual genres changed during the seventeenth century.

- an understanding of the interrelation of genres and of changes in their mutual ranking in the hierarchies of the period.

- an understanding of how genres altered in response to cultural and historical pressures.
Reading List
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Contacts
Course organiserProf James Loxley
Tel: (0131 6)50 3610
Email: James.Loxley@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Anne Mason
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
Email: Anne.Mason@ed.ac.uk
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