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While the short story is often said to have developed in America, nineteenth-century Scottish writing is in fact instrumental in the emergence of the form. Often drawing on oral and folk traditions Scottish writers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employ the supernatural, or our fear of it, to explore subjects such as guilt, fear, remorse and the extent to which we can control our own destinies. This course will explore the ways in which the short story in Scotland develops from the early nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. It will include writers such as Walter Scott, James Hogg, John Galt, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Findlater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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While the short story is often said to have developed in America, nineteenth-century Scottish writing is in fact instrumental in the emergence of the form. Often drawing on oral and folk traditions Scottish writers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employ the supernatural, or our fear of it, to explore subjects such as guilt, fear, remorse and the extent to which we can control our own destinies. This course will explore the ways in which the short story in Scotland develops from the early nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. It will include writers such as Walter Scott, James Hogg, John Galt, Margaret Oliphanz, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Findlater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon. This course will examine a century of Scottish short stories, their relationship to the Gothic and the supernatural and the themes they raise through this approach.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
Alternative Assessment
(30%) 1500-word Close Reading Exercise
(50%) 2500-word Essay
(10%) Contributions to Discussion Boards
(10%) SAM
Alternative Resit Assessment
1x 3500-word Resit Essay
Formative feedback will be given by responses to class discussion and summative feedback will be given in written form and orally on request.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students will be able to analyse a range of thematic impulses at play within selected short stories |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Students will be able to reflect upon their own knowledge and how it develops throughout the course |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students will be able to understand a range of strategies adopted by writers in the period studied |
| Conceptual | Create | Students will be able to produce coherent arguments and communicate these both in written form and verbally. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students will be able to offer a critique of the effectiveness of narrative strategies in a range of stories |
| Conceptual | Create | Students will be able to construct coherent and cogent arguments to support their hypotheses concerning a selection of short stories |
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