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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : European Languages and Cultures - Italian

Undergraduate Course: Fiction from the Deep: Victorian fathers and the Svevo (Copernican) revolution (Ordinary) (ELCI09007)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummarySvevo is the Italian byname for heightened humour and ambiguity. His "Coscienza di Zeno" (1923) remains one of the most approachable and yet thoroughly challenging classics of European Modernism.

In taking up the challenge, this course explores how a struggle with the father, which started in pre-Kafkian fashion with the early works, can turn into autonomy from all fathers and pre-postmodernist humour in the later major fiction.

From Schopenhauer to Freud, in Svevo all authority is dealt a blow. The course employs a variety of methodological approaches to analyse how that effect is achieved in the texts.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements This course is open to Ordinary Students only.
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesEntry to any language course above introductory level is subject to a language test by the relevant subject area on arrival and at the discretion of the course organiser.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
(a) to demonstrate sound knowledge and understanding of the subject; (b) to construct coherent arguments which demonstrate an awareness of the problems posed by the texts; (c) to apply competently relevant concepts from literary theory.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserProf Federica Pedriali
Tel: (0131 6)50 3642
Email: F.Pedriali@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Fiona Jack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3635
Email: f.jack@ed.ac.uk
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