Introduction to Scottish Literature - AAALD011A

• Title: Úvod do skotské literatury
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2021
• 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
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Colin Steele Clark, M.A.
• Is interchangeable with: AAA500512

Annotation

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

Course Tutor: Colin S Clark MA
Office Hours: Monday 1100 -1200(via Zoom at present)
Email: [e-mail] /[e-mail]
Course Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84937430144?pwd=TFNQbVMzS1FLUDAwMmwrRkRTMDJxUT09

This course is designed as a primer in the key texts and movements in Scottish Literature. Covering major authors from the 16 to 21st centuries, it provides students with a basic feel for the texture, themes and distinctiveness of literature in Latin, English, Scots and Gaelic in Scotland. Students are exposed to a variety of Scottish texts, ancient and modern spanning 500 years of the nation's literature. Reading is compulsory and students will expect to cover approximately one of the listed texts (selected with brevity in mind) per week.

Course completion requirements

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

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 one course essay of 1500 words each. MA students must submit a longer paper of 3000 words (details on application).

Literature

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

Key Texts*

Henryson-Testament of Cresseid/Dunbar- The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

George Buchanan-Elegy for John Calvin/Arthur Johnston- Edinburgh/Glasgow

Robert Burns - Tam O'Shanter/To a mouse/Ae fond kiss +various verse epistles

Sir Walter Scott-Waverley/The Antiquary

James Hogg-The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

T.S.Eliot- Was There a Scottish Literature?(The Athenaeum,1919)

Hugh MacDiarmid- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle/On a Raised Beach/The Watergaw

Liz Lochhead- Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped off

James Kelman- How late it was, how late

Irvine Welsh- Filth

Janice Galloway- The Trick is to Keep Breathing

Ian Banks- The Wasp Factory

* Texts are supplemented with ancillary readings where appropriate. The core texts listed as the basis of class discussions and must be read. Most core texts exist in PDF and can be found in your Dropbox for the class-if you don’t have access simply email me for the link and to be added to the box. Please note that you should be careful to only copy material out of the box- don’t highlight the file and move it as it is then unavailable to others.

Syllabus

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

1. Feb 18-Introductory Session

2. Feb 25^h-Medieval Scottish Literature- The Scottish Chaucerians and The Reformation

Texts: The Testament of Cressid/The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo/The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie/The Cherry and the Sloe/The Lament for the Makaris/

3. Mar 4^- The Decline of Drama :A Satire of the Three Estates- Sir David Lyndsay and Early Drama.

Texts: George Buchanan-Elegy for John Calvin/Arthur Johnston- Edinburgh/Glasgow/Sir David Lyndsay-The Satire of the Three Estates/ John Knox-On Rebellion/First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

4. Mar 11^- Other Tongues: Latin Verse and the Shift to English. Ballads George Buchanan and Arthur Johnson

5.Mar18^-   Pre- Romanticism- Burns - Tam O'Shanter/To a mouse/Ae fond kiss +various verse epistles (texts will be posted to Dropbox)

6. Mar 25: Scottish Romanticism

Sir Walter Scott-Waverley (Extracts only) the Lay of the Last Minstrel

James Hogg-The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Extracts only)

7. Apr 1: Scottish Victorian Literature

Texts: R.L Stevenson- Jekyll& Hyde , JM.Barrie-Peter Pan, George MacDonald Faery Stories, James Thomson City of Dreadful Night

8.  Apr 8: Female Voices-Woman Writers in the 19^th/20^th C

Margaret Oliphant -Miss Marjoribanks , Mary Brunton-Self-control/Discipline, Marion Angus-Alas, Poor queen! Violet Jacob-Flemington.

9. Apr 15 : The Scottish Literary Renaissance and Modernism

Texts: T.S.Eliot- Was There a Scottish Literature?(The Athenaeum,1919)

Hugh MacDiarmid- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle/On a Raised Beach/The Watergaw

10. Apr 22 -20^th C Scottish Dramatic Revivals

Texts:- Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped off- Liz Lochhead, The Seal Wife-Sue Glover, The Cheviot ,The Stag and the Black, Black Oil-John McGrath, Dunsinane-David Greig,Black Watch-Gregory Burke(Extracts to be provided on Dropbox)

11. Apr 29– Interventions

Texts: Alasdair Gray-Lanark, James Kelman- How Late it was, How Late, Irvine Welsh-Filth, Janice Galloway- The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Alan Warner-Morvern Callar, Emma Tenant-Faustine

12. May 6- “Stands Scotland Where it Did?”-Speculations on the Future.

Texts: The Wasp Factory-Ian Banks, Ken MacLeod-The Human Front, Michel Faber-Under the Skin, James Robertson-And the Land Lay Still.

13. May 13-Course Conclusion. Final Essay Submissions and Final Admin.