Undergraduate Course: The Rise of the Anti-Hero (LLLG07088)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Disillusionment, alienation, existential purposelessness, the search for an alternative morality and many other characteristic troubles and discontents of nineteenth-century European culture form the basis of this course. |
| Course description |
This course will begin with one of the finest French novels, Benjamin Constant's tale of introverted, destructive sexuality, Adolphe (1816); and will continue on to examine a variety of characters such as the Byronic hero in Manfred (1817) and his Russian re-incarnation in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (1840). The writing of Stendhal, Dostoyevsky, Kafka and Camus will also be studied in detail.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- appreciate the special concerns of anti-hero literature
- understand developments of the genre from 1800 to 1940
- analyse the works covered on the course in their cultural and historical contexts
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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 | Ms Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Kameliya.Skerleva@ed.ac.uk |
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