CO4002 The Literary Canon

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

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Module coordinator

Dr C Lawson

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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

Combining a theoretical framework with a number of case studies, this module will introduce students to the history and changing conceptions of the literary canon and its construction, exploring questions such as 'what do we mean by a classic and who decides?; 'why do some texts survive whilst others do not?'; 'what different factors - e.g. educational and other institutions, the material conditions of production, reception and distribution, the politics of reading and writing, contemporary technologies - affect the formation of the canon in different periods and different countries?'

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

PERMISSION OF THE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE HONOURS ADVISER.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 seminar and 1 surgery hour.