Modern Scottish Literature - AAA500513

• Title: Moderní skotská literatura
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2011
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Colin Steele Clark, M.A.

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
Modern Scottish Literature is renowned for its inventiveness and thematic scope. This course is designed to offer
students an overview of the key texts in the national literature since the end of modernism: circa 1959.The texts are
all selected for their suitability for class discussion and are all accessible and readily accessible.

ASSESSMENT
Classes are organised around discussion/micro-lectures of the assigned texts and assessment is on the basis of
attendance (max 3 absences), participation (presentations) and submission of two position papers(1000 words
each). MA students must submit a longer paper(details on application).

REQUIRED READING*
The Cone Gatherers-Robin Jenkins
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
Magnus- George MacKay Brown
1982,Janine-Alasdair Gray
How Late it was, How Late- James Kelman
Bunker Man- Duncan McLean
Medea-Liz Lochhead
Morvern Callar- Alan Warner
Marabou Stork Nightmares- Irvine Welsh
So I am Glad- A.L.Kennedy
The Death of a Ladies' Man- Alan Bissett
* Texts are supplemented with ancillary readings where appropriate. The core texts listed as the basis of class
discussions and must be read.

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (24.01.2011)