Undergraduate Course: D.H. Lawrence and E. M. Forster (LLLG07086)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
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 | This course will explore works by two great writers of fiction who were personally acquainted and made illuminating and provocative comments on each other's work. |
| Course description |
Students will learn about the impact of EM Forster and D H Lawrence's childhoods, social class, and education on their subsequent writing, and will also become acquainted with their theories about Literature and the extent to which these shed light on their practice as writers.
The course will explore the two writers' comparative struggles against what they perceived as repressive and hypocritical in the attitudes of their contemporaries, especially to social class and sex and the way travel and personal relationships enabled both to achieve a measure of sexual fulfilment and artistic integrity
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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 understanding of the influence and impact social and cultural contexts had on both writers
- Show analytic approach to close reading of text
- Demonstrate an understanding of the influence both writers had on contemporary and future writers and their contribution to literary theory
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Learning Resources
Preparatory reading:
D H Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (Heinemann, 1964)
E M Forster, Aspects of the Novel (Pelican, 1976)
Core Texts:
D H Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (Penguin, 1948)
D H Lawrence, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories (Penguin, 1945)
D H Lawrence, Twilight in Italy (Heinemann, 1956)
D H Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (Heinemann, 1960)
E M Forster, The Longest Journey (Penguin, 1988)
E M Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread (Arnold, 1975)
E M Forster, Maurice (Penguin, 1977)
E M Forster, Collected Short Stories (Penguin, 1954)
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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 | Mr Benjamin McNab
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
Email: Benjamin.Mcnab@ed.ac.uk |
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