EN4348
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance
2018-2019
30
15
SCQF level 10
1
Academic year(s): 2018-2019
SCOTCAT credits : 30
ECTS credits : 15
Level : SCQF level 10
Semester: 1
Availability restrictions: Not automatically available to General Degree students
Planned timetable:
This module will introduce students to literary texts which are concerned with corporeality and selfhood in the Renaissance period. This will offer students advanced study of major Renaissance texts, many of which are taught at sub-honours level, while encouraging an innovative approach to sources. Works by Rabelais, Spenser, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Webster, Lanyer and others will be explored alongside a variety of contemporaneous material including early modern medical, physiological, and philosophical texts. The aim of this course is to place the relationship between the body, the self, and sensory experience at the heart of our understanding of Renaissance literature. We will consider problems including: the relationship between body, mind, and language in the early modern period; the ways in which culture and society shape embodied life; the religious dimensions of bodily and sensory experience. Students should be prepared for an intense programme of primary and secondary reading and for heavily discussion-based seminars. Assessment will be by a progression of essays; there is no exam. (Group B)
Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass EN2003 and pass EN2004
Weekly contact: 2-hour seminar and 2 optional consultative hours.
Scheduled learning hours: 20
Guided independent study hours: 280
As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%
As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 0%
Practical examinations : 0%
Coursework: 100%
Re-assessment: 3-hour Written Examination = 100%