English and Scottish Literature

Fourth year semester two

These are the core and option courses available for year 4 in semester 2 of session 2020-2021.

Fourth Year Semester 2 Core Courses

 

Course
Contemporary Scottish Fiction*
Poor Things*: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature (Group 1)
Poor Things*: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature (Group 2)
Postcolonial Writing
Strangers to Ourselves* (Group 1)
  OR Strangers to Ourselves* (Group 2)
The American Novel  (Group 1)
  OR The American Novel  (Group 2)
  OR The American Novel  (Group 3)
  OR The American Novel  (Group 4)

Full details of all the available core courses in fourth year can be found here:

 

Fourth Year Semester 2 Option Courses

Course
Boundaries of the Human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature (LLC Common Course)
Charles Dickens (not running in session 20-21)
Climate Change Fiction
Comparative Literature in a European and Global Perspective (LLC Common Course)
Contemporary Science Fiction*
Creative Writing Part II: Prose (4th yr)
Fairy Tales* (Group 1)
  OR Fairy Tales* (Group 2)
Fin de Siècle into Modern
Intermediality: between literature, music and painting (LLC Common Course)
Literature, Reading, Mental Health (Group 1)
  OR Literature, Reading, Mental Health (Group 2)
Medicine in Literature 2: Medical Ethics in Literature*
Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry*
Modernism: Text, Image, Object
Political Shakespeare
Republican Visions
Shakespearean Sexualities
The Black Atlantic
The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art
The Great Russian Novel (LLC Common Course)
Tragedy and Modernity
Writing and Tyranny
Writing for Theatre: An Introduction* (taught with Y3)

Courses marked with an asterisk have a Scottish emphasis

Full details of all the available option courses in fourth year can be found here: