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Seminar: ‘That good place we know as the world’: Motifs and Forms in Twentieth‐Century Scottish Poetry - Vertiefungsmodul - Details
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Course name Seminar: ‘That good place we know as the world’: Motifs and Forms in Twentieth‐Century Scottish Poetry - Vertiefungsmodul
Course number ANG.05584.02; ANG.05293.02
Semester SoSe 2024
Current number of participants 20
expected number of participants 30
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Thursday, 23.05.2024 14:15 - 15:45, Room: Seminarraum 3 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Type/Form On-Campus Seminar
Studiengänge (für) MA Kulturen der Aufklärung 120 LP (2014)
LA Gym, Sek Englisch (2012+2015)
LA Förder (Sekundar) Englisch (2012+2015)
MA Engl. Spr. u Lit 45/75 LP (2015)
MA Angloam. Lit., Spr u Kult. 120 LP (2015)
SWS 2
Miscellanea ANG.05584.02 Modul Literatur und Ästhetik I: Westeuropäische Literaturen
ANG.05293.02 Vertiefungsmodul: Anglistik Literatur II
ECTS points 5

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Since the so-called ‘Scottish Renaissance’ in the early twentieth century, the interest in Scottish culture and literature has increased inside and outside of Scotland. Scottish poetry in particular has been acknowledged for its formal and thematic diversity, which includes visual poetry, sonnets, metaphysical explorations of landscapes and animal life, intertextualities, and, of course, various humorous modes and moods. Proceeding from an overview of Scottish culture and literature in twentieth-century Britain, this course will focus on lyrical forms and motifs in the work of three renowned Scottish poets: Edwin Morgan, Norman MacCaig, and Carol Ann Duffy. In addition to discovering their formal and thematic diversity, we will discuss why their work can be described as both distinctively Scottish, and as appealing to a more general audience in order to understand how these writers have placed Scottish poetry on the global literary map.

Additional primary texts and a variety of secondary sources will be made available in the course and on StudIP. There will also be a library shelf (‘Semesterapparat’) for students in the library branch on Steintor Campus. There will be short assignments during the semester, and a work-in-progress presentation. The module exam (“Modulprüfungsleistung”) will be a term paper (8.000 words) on a topic provided; students are also welcome to develop their own topics. Approach, structure, and the writing of a term paper will be explained and practiced in the sessions.

This course can be attended in general preparation of the Staatsexamenklausur “Arbeit unter Aufsicht” in Autumn 2024. Further preparation can be obtained in the Forschungskolloquium.

Studienleistungen:
• Regular attendance and oral participation
• In-depth knowledge of the reading material
• Short tasks in class
• Oral presentation
Please note that prior registration (deadline: 3 April 2024) for the course via StudIP is mandatory.

Primary texts to be purchased by students:
Please make sure to purchase EXACTLY (just as it says) the editions given below, as we will need identical content and pagination in order to engage in discussions in class.

Duffy, Carol Ann. New Selected Poems (1984-2004). London: Picador/Pan Macmillan, 2011. ISBN 978 1 447 20642 2. Print.
MacCaig, Norman. The Many Days. Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig. Revised edition. Ed. Roderick Watson. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2013. ISBN 978 1 84697 171 6. Print.

Recommended reading.
A list with recommended further primary and secondary reading will be provided in StudIP at the beginning of the term.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Zeitgesteuerte Anmeldung - ELK".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • The enrolment is possible from 14.03.2024, 00:00 to 03.04.2024, 23:59.

Registration mode

The enrolment is binding, participants cannot unsubscribe themselves.