EN5305 The Worlds of Renaissance Literature

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

To be arranged

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Module coordinator

Dr G J Pertile

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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

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.

Assessment pattern

100% coursework

Re-assessment