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

Postgraduate Course: Cultures of the Book (ENLI11094)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
Summary*Please note this course is not open to any students outside of the MSc Book History & Material Culture programme*
This course is designed to introduce students to the study of Book History from manuscript culture to electronic text. It also serves to introduce students to the range of expertise and resources in the study of Book History at the University of Edinburgh and in the city. It is structured in five sections: materiality, textuality, printing and reading, authorship and intermediality, and remediation. It aims both to ground students in the theoretical and practical understandings they need to begin advanced independent research in Book History, and to introduce them to the leading-edge of debates in the field, at a moment when the media ecology we inhabit is being transformed and the interdisciplinary field of Book History must work hard to catch up.
Course description Week 1 Introduction

SECTION 1: MATERIALITY
Week 2 Reading the Printed Codex
Week 3 Manuscripts: Scroll to Codex

SECTION 2: TEXTUALITY
Week 4 Copy Text
Week 5 Authorial Intentions

SECTION 3: PRINTING AND READING
Week 6 Printing on the Hand Press 1
Week 7 Printing on the Hand Press 2

SECTION 4: AUTHORSHIP AND INTERMEDIALITY
Week 8 Authorship and Publishing
Week 9 Books in the Media Ecology

SECTION 5: REMEDIATION
Week 10 What Next for the Book?
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Ground students in the theoretical and practical understandings they need to begin advanced independent research in Book History.
  2. Introduce students to the leading-edge of debates in the field, at a moment when the media ecology we inhabit is being transformed and the interdisciplinary field of Book History must work hard to catch up.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsCotB
Contacts
Course organiserDr Thomas Mole
Tel: (0131 6)50 4283
Email: Tom.Mole@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Kara McCormack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Kara.McCormack@ed.ac.uk
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