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

Postgraduate Course: Deconstruction and History (ENLI11010)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course offers an intensive study of Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology, and a small selection of his more recent work. The focus will be on Derrida's deconstruction of the ideas of speech and writing. The course will explore the speech/writing binary through a series of temporal and spatial conditions including England in the 1790s, early 19th century Scotland, colonial and post-colonial writing, and contemporary "dialect" poetry. Authors and theorists examined include Rousseau, Burns, George Eliot, Kipling, Levi-Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Tom Leonard. The course looks at how deconstruction functions in different political contexts, including the nature of written constitutions, the invention of the primitive, the history of anthropology and the function of popular literature.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Purchase of essential texts as required.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
To give MSc students an in-depth knowledge of important text for critical and cultural theory with an introduction to other texts by Derrida.
To show how theory can be used in literary and political contexts.
To supplement the key themes on English literature masters courses: Nation, Writing, Culture, and Writing and Cultural Politics, and give students from non-English literature backgrounds some experience of dealing with literacy texts.
To introduce students to working within an interdisciplinary field, making connections between important areas for postgraduate work.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information 2 hour(s) per week for 1 week(s).
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Penny Fielding
Tel: (0131 6)50 3609
Email: Penny.Fielding@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Natalie Lankester-Carthy
Tel:
Email: Natalie.Carthy@ed.ac.uk
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