EN5303
Renaissance Popular Culture
2018-2019
20
10
SCQF level 11
2
Academic year(s): 2018-2019
SCOTCAT credits : 20
ECTS credits : 10
Level : SCQF level 11
Semester: 2
Planned timetable:
This module aims to build upon the themes explored in EN5304, 'Learned Culture'. Here, the emphasis is less upon rhetoric and classroom practice in the sixteenth century, and more upon Renaissance literature's engagement with a wider field of influences and practice, explored as aspects of 'the popular' in its widest sense. Themes for discussion may include: the place of the stage; popular festivity and literary form; ballads and print; jests and alehouses; the impact of the Reformation. Texts to be discussed may include: Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale; law and popular culture; the poetry of Robert Herrick.
Weekly contact: 1.5 hour seminar (x 8 weeks)
As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%
Re-assessment: One new submission equivalent in length and nature to the failed piece of coursework. The piece submitted for reassessment must be entirely new work.