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This course will focus on the part Middle Scots poets such as Robert Henryson, Gavin Douglas, William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy play in constructing ideas of a national literary tradition. The course will consider the ways in which these texts articulate changing conceptions of vernaculars and vernacular writing, and their reception in the work of the seventeenth-century poet and collector Allan Ramsay. It will also explore the role of the publishing society founded by Sir Walter Scott, the Bannatyne Club (1823-61).
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Old Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course will focus on the part Middle Scots poets such as Robert Henryson, Gavin Douglas, William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy play in constructing ideas of a national literary tradition. The course will consider the ways in which these texts articulate changing conceptions of vernaculars and vernacular writing, and their reception in the work of the seventeenth-century poet and collector Allan Ramsay. It will also explore the role of the publishing society founded by Sir Walter Scott, the Bannatyne Club (1823-61): in printing records illustrative of Scotland’s literary past, the Club at once endorses and shapes cultural heritage, and contributes to the preservation of a distinctive Scottish identity in the context of Union. The course will examine the role of medieval texts and medievalism in shaping influential narratives of Scottish literary history, and their ongoing impact upon perceptions of Scottish and British identity.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
First attempt: 1 essay of 2500 words (40%), 1 essay of 3500 words (50%), presentation (10%).
Resit: 5,000 word essay (100%).
There are no assessments for this course.
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