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Reading History's Past

EL5045/EL5553

CREDIT POINTS 20

Course Co-ordinator: Prof. Cairns Craig

Pre-requisite(s): Available only to registered postgraduate students

The course explores the ways in which reading has developed since the invention of print and through those changes the different ways in which the past has been ‘read’ at various stages in Western culture, from the interpretation of the Bible to the establishment of the significance of ‘national’ history. It compares the construction of the past as the product of divine intervention with the notion of history as a progressive enlightenment; it explores how literary works construct a sense of a national past and compares that with the role of the historian as a writer. It then compares the ways in which key events in Scottish and Irish history have been rendered by older and more contemporary historians.

1 x 2 hour seminar, weekly

Presentation (20%)
Essay: 3,000 words (80%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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