University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 1

Planned timetable: To be arranged

This module considers the relationship between writing in English from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the range of ‘other worlds’ with which that writing is engaged, ranging from the language worlds of the continental vernaculars to geographically remote locations to the imaginary worlds posited within early modern writing. Possible topics for discussion include: Petrarch’s sonnets and their English imitators and adaptors; Italian epic; Elizabethan Ireland and colonial Virginia; the Ottoman Empire; the imagined worlds of Thomas More and Margaret Cavendish. All texts will be taught in English.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 2 hour seminar (x 9 weeks)

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: 100% coursework


Re-assessment: 100% coursework

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr G J Pertile
Module teaching staff: Team taught