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EL40KD: IMAGINED SPACES: SELF AND PLACE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY SCOTTISH FICTION (2023-2024)

Last modified: 05 Oct 2023 08:46


Course Overview

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.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 4
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Timothy Baker

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Programme Level 4
  • Any Undergraduate Programme (Studied)
  • English (EL)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

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.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Tutorial/Seminar Participation

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 10
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Verbal feedback through seminars; timely written feedback through SAM sheets.

Learning Outcomes
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Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 45
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Feedback

Verbal feedback through seminars; timely written feedback through essay cover sheets.

Word Count 3500
Learning Outcomes
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Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 35
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Feedback

Verbal feedback through seminars; timely written feedback through essay cover sheets.

Word Count 2500
Learning Outcomes
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Oral Presentation: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 10
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Verbal feedback through seminars; timely written feedback through SAM sheets.

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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