Scottish Speculative Fiction - AAA132019

• Title: Scottish Speculative Fiction
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• 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
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Colin Steele Clark, M.A.

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Miroslava Horová, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Summer Term 2021<br>
Tuesdays 9:10-10:40 <br>
Instructor: Colin S Clark MA<br>

This course seeks to introduce students to what is arguably the dominant genre of modern literature-the speculative. This literature explores the boundaries of the possible and provides solutions, from the pragmatic to the fantastic to the various stress- fractures and impasses of the modern Scottish nation-stateless, imagined and yet culturally robust and politically virile.<br>
The texts taught here are as contemporary as possible and range across political, fantastic, sci-fi and slipstream literatures to equip the student with a coherent overview of the modern ‘question of Scotland ‘ and it’s ‘claim of right’.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Petra Johana Poncarová, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Requirements: One in-class oral presentation on a topic pertaining to the above list of the texts studied in the seminar, 20-30 minutes long. The speech should prove your ability to analyze a literary work, to build up argument and to arrive at a critical assessment. In addition to this, you will submit a written version of your presentation (length: up to 2,000 words), or, in case you won’t present, an essay on a given topic (length: 3,000 words); both forms are subject to one re-writing. Please mind that the topic must address a specific problem in the presented work. Date of submission: 11 May 2021(the last session). Attendance is presently via Zoom and students require to have sufficient tech to obtain connection with audio/visio link.  

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Petra Johana Poncarová, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

16 Feb- Intro

 

23 Feb-Ken MacLeod-The future will happen here too/Descent

 

2 Mar -Neil Williamson- The Moon King

 

9 Mar Charles Stross- Halting State

 

16 Mar- Paul Johnstone- The Body Politic

 

23 Mar-Michel Faber- Under the Skin/ Book of Strange New Things

 

30 Mar-Douglas Thompson- Apoiedeia

 

 6 April -Jenni  Fagan- Sunlight Pilgrims

 

13 April- No Dominion -Louise Welsh

 

20 April-Alan Bissett- The Death of a Ladies Man

 

27 April -James Robertson- The Testament of Gideon Mack

 

4 May January-Iain Banks- Hydrogen Sonata

 

11 May-Course Conclusion and Admin matters.