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While the short story is often said to have developed in America, nineteenth-century Scottish writing is in fact instrumental in the emergence of the form. Often drawing on oral and folk traditions Scottish writers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employ the supernatural, or our fear of it, to explore subjects such as guilt, fear, remorse and the extent to which we can control our own destinies. This course will explore the ways in which the short story in Scotland develops from the early nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. It will include writers such as Walter Scott, James Hogg, John Galt, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Findlater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 3 |
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| Session | First Sub Session | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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While the short story is often said to have developed in America, nineteenth-century Scottish writing is in fact instrumental in the emergence of the form. Often drawing on oral and folk traditions Scottish writers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries employ the supernatural, or our fear of it, to explore subjects such as guilt, fear, remorse and the extent to which we can control our own destinies. This course will explore the ways in which the short story in Scotland develops from the early nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. It will include writers such as Walter Scott, James Hogg, John Galt, Margaret Oliphanz, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Findlater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon. This course will examine a century of Scottish short stories, their relationship to the Gothic and the supernatural and the themes they raise through this approach.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
1 x 3000 word essay (70%)
1 x project/presentation (20%)
Contribution to discussion threads (10%)
Alternative Resit Arrangements for students taking course in Academic Year 2020/21
1 x Resit Essay (3,500 words)
Formative Assessment will be provided via seminar discussion and during a close reading workshop.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students will be able to analyse a range of thematic impulses at play within selected short stories |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Students will be able to reflect upon their own knowledge and how it develops throughout the course |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Students will be able to offer a critique of the effectiveness of narrative strategies in a range of stories |
| Conceptual | Create | Students will be able to produce coherent arguments and communicate these both in written form and verbally. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Students will be able to understand a range of strategies adopted by writers in the period studied |
| Conceptual | Create | Students will be able to construct coherent and cogent arguments to support their hypotheses concerning a selection of short stories |
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