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Course Proposal Details for - Scottish Literary Renaissance in the Twentieth Century
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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
THIS IS A FOR-CREDIT COURSE OFFERED BY THE
OFFICE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY
STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE
ENROLLED.
In the 1920s, the poet Hugh MacDiarmid proclaimed a new
Scottish Literary Renaissance. It was at once reactionary and
Course Description
revolutionary: renegotiating the nation's past and projecting an
outward-looking, innovative literature for the future. In the late
twentieth-century critics observed a 'second' Scottish Literary
Renaissance associated with writers like Alasdair Gray, Liz
Lochhead, and James Kelman. This course will examine each
of these perceived movements and compare their techniques,
their politics, and their relationship with national identity.
Normal Year Taken Year 1 Undergraduate
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UG
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Not available to visiting students
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10
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SCQF Level 7
(SCQF)
Home Subject Area Lifelong Learning (LLC)
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Anya Clayworth
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Sabine Murdoch
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Lifelong Learning - Session 2
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By the end of this course, students should be able to:
* demonstrate knowledge of key writers and ideas from the
interwar Scottish Literary Renaissance, and its late twentiethcentury counterpart.
* demonstrate basic skills in literary criticism and analysis.
* show an understanding of historical, political, and cultural
contexts for range of texts from throughout modern Scottish
literary history.
* articulate and structure thoughts on literary texts, and
demonstrate confidence in personal perspective, showing
independence of thought and developing own critical voice.
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One 2000 word essay submitted after the course finishes, worth
100% of the total mark.
Week 1
Introductory class on National Identity and Literature in
Scotland throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Working from handouts, which will be provided.
Week 2
Hugh MacDiarmid: Scotland and the Infinite.
Selection from Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, and essays /
prose excerpts provided as handouts.
Week 3
Edwin and Willa Muir: Sham Bards of a Sham Nation.
Selection from Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, and essays /
prose excerpts provided as handouts.
Week 4
Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Scotland's Favourite Scottish Book?
Sunset Song, and essays / prose excerpts provided as handouts.
Week 5
Sorley Maclean, George Campbell Hay, and Ian Crichton
Smith: Gaelic Renaissance.
Selection from Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, and essays /
prose excerpts provided as handouts.
Week 6
Edwin Morgan and Ian Hamilton Finlay: Exploding the
Renaissance.
Selection from Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry, and essays /
prose excerpts provided as handouts.
Week 7
Alasdair Gray: Early Days of a Better Nation?
Poor Things, and handout.
Week 8
James Kelman: How Late it Was¿
Greyhound for Breakfast, and handout.
Week 9
Liz Lochhead: History Gets its Head Chopped Off.
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, and
selection from Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry.
Week 10
Contemporary Scottish Writers and National Identity.
A selection of essays, poems and prose works provided as
handout. Particular focus on recent debates around Scottish
politics and identity.
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Transferable Skills
* Close reading
* Conceptual / analytical discourse
* Articulating with confidence
* Development of independent critical insights
Study Abroad
Reading Lists
Essential
Dunn, Douglas. 2006. ed., Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry.
London: Faber.
Grassic Gibbon, Lewis. 2007. Sunset Song. Harmondsworth:
Penguin.
Gray, Alasdair. 2002. Poor Things. London: Bloomsbury.
Kelman, James. 2011. Greyhound for Breakfast. Edinburgh:
Polygon.
Lochhead, Liz. 2009. Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head
Chopped Off. London: Nick Hern Books.
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