Postgraduate Course: Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry (Level 11) (ENLI11205)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Modern and contemporary Scottish verse is notable for its range and virtuosity. Its abundant vernacular energy is matched by great variety in terms of style, mode, and voice. |
| Course description |
Modern and contemporary Scottish verse is notable for its range and virtuosity. Its abundant vernacular energy is matched by great variety in terms of style, mode, and voice. From formal compactness to sprawling experimentalism; from yearning lyricism to mordant satire; from uncompromising naturalism to dream-songs, fables and fantasies; from impassioned searches for authenticity to bawdy carnivalesques - students will be encouraged to experience and enjoy the many-voiced contradictions and diversity of Scottish poetry, but also to discover and explore interconnections and parallels between differing styles, viewpoints and tendencies. The course will focus on a selection of poems by a variety of poets, which will be made available online. There will also be a growing emphasis on representing the richness and depth of women's poetry in the second half of the course.
Featured Poets
Hugh MacDiarmid
Edwin Muir
George MacKay Brown
Robert Garioch
Norman MacCaig
Edwin Morgan
Tom Leonard
W. S. Graham
Douglas Dunn
Liz Lochhead
Carol Ann Duffy
Jackie Kay
Tracey Herd
Jen Hadfield
Kathleen Jamie
John Burnside
Don Paterson
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
| Students will gain detailed knowledge of poetry written largely since the Second World War. While they will develop reading strategies appropriate to the analysis of writing translated from Gaelic and some in Scots, their main skill development will be in relation to the analysis of complex linguistic performances in English. Students will develop knowledge of relationships between poetry and gender representation, and knowledge of poetry as cultural and personal self-identification. They will deepen their understanding of relationships between poetic form and attitudes to history, to formal religion and to Scotland's cultural and linguistic diversity.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
Jointly taught with undergraduate students (ENLI10088) |
| Keywords | MaCSP |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Alan Gillis
Tel: (0131 6)50 3050
Email: Alan.Gillis@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Kara McCormack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Kara.McCormack@ed.ac.uk |
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