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This course charts an idiosyncratic path through twentieth-century Scottish fiction, looking both at canonical novels and works relegated to 'genre fiction' in order to examine the interrelation between place, text, and narrative voice. The course focuses on questions of narrative reliability, depictions of region and nation, and self-reflexivity.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The relationship between self and place is central to many key twentieth-century Scottish novels. Looking at a selection of novels about rural and urban experience, and including both canonical and lesser-known works, this course will introduce students to key debates in the study of regional and national fiction. In each of these texts individuals are shaped by a particular place, and in turn shape that place. This relationship is further complicated by the question of reliability and narrative voice: each of these texts explores the limits of stable representation. Combining a variety of modern, postmodern, and contemporary texts, this course both introduces students to some of the best Scottish writing of the last century and highlights key debates in the study of Scottish literature. Authors to be studied may include John Buchan, Willa Muir, Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray, and A.L. Kennedy.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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Verbal feedback through seminars; timely written feedback through SAM sheets. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 45 | |
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Verbal feedback through seminars; timely written feedback through essay cover sheets. |
Word Count | 3500 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 35 | |
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| Feedback |
Verbal feedback through seminars; timely written feedback through essay cover sheets. |
Word Count | 2500 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
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Verbal feedback through seminars; timely written feedback through SAM sheets. |
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There are no assessments for this course.
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| Factual | Remember | ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide. |
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