CO4020 Literature and the Bible

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

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Module coordinator

Dr R P Wilson

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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

This module will build on the knowledge of translation issues gained in CO3002 and apply it to arguable the most significant source for the European and American literary traditions - the Bible. Conceiving the relationship between individual authors and the biblical sources on which they draw as dynamic and symbiotic, it will analyse the role assumed by the Bible in the work of authors from different linguistic traditions. Its central concern is to give students the conceptual tools necessary to interpret the influence of this religious text, or collection of texts, in works that depart from canonical articulation or sanction, and to chart the historical development of its literary representation to the present day.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

PERMISSION OF THE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE HONOURS ADVISER

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Written Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 seminar and an optional surgery hour.