English

The course gives an overview of the most common tools used when transcribing and editing texts, primarily from manuscripts; the different forms of digital presentation of texts; and the types of projects related to corpuses, databases, and editions of premodern texts in which memory institutions (libraries and archives) interact with scholars and the general public. 

This course introduces students to the past 250 years of Scottish literary history through a combination of celebrated and neglected texts. Focusing on poetry and prose, and featuring pirates, fairies, monsters, devils, and the full gamut of loves, joys, sorrows, and traumas, this course examines the range of ways in which people have imagined themselves in, through, or otherwise associated with Scotland. This means confronting both the comfortable stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, and the horrors we are liable to reveal.

This course explores the emerging writers in Britain from 1950 onwards. It analyzes the relationship between their work and modernism, as well as their role in the global canon of British tradition. Additionally, this course examines the interaction between contemporary English fiction and other characteristics of post-modern cultural events. 

In this course, students explore what reading literature at university level entails. Students are invited to explore different models of authorship, readership, and textuality, in order to reflect on how meaning is produced in the genres of poetry and drama. For example, how do we identify meter and rhythm? What do terms like 'caesura' and 'parallelis' mean, and what are they used for? In drama there is a big difference between reading a play on the page and seeing it performed on a stage - how do we get from one to the other? This course explores the key terms and concepts needed to address such questions and enable students to read previously unseen texts confidently at a first reading.