Duration
Theory : 30h Th
Bibliographic research : 2h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
Theory : Marc Delrez
Bibliographic research : Marc Delrez
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course will consist of heuristic seminars providing close readings and discussions of a sample of short stories by contemporary English-speaking authors, among whom Janet Frame, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark, Anita Desai, Nadine Gordimer, Olive Senior, and others.
A second part will subsequently focus on Richard Flanagan's The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Penguin, 2020), a novel that will be placed in the context of climate change fiction - with a view to alerting the students to the political implications of a 'taken-for-granted' Western-type lifestyle.
Theory
The course will consist of close readings of a sample of short stories by contemporary English-speaking authors, among whom Janet Frame, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark, Anita Desai, Nadine Gordimer and others. A second part will subsequently focus on Damon Galgut's The Impostor, a novel that will be placed in the context of South African cultural studies with a view to alerting the students to the political implications of some post-colonial literature.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The aim is to enhance the students' ability to understand and interpret literary texts of whatever denomination, and to provide written analyses in the form of articulate essays in English.
Theory
Enhance the students' ability to understand and interpret literary texts of whatever denomination, and to provide written analyses in the form of articulate essays in English.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course is entirely taught in English.
Theory
The course is entirely taught in English.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Next to the hermeneutic seminars, some attention will be devoted to the difficulties of essay-writing and to the conventions governing the compilation of a bibliography.
Theory
Next to the seminars, some attention will be devoted to the difficulties of essay-writing and to the conventions governing the compilation of a bibliography.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face to face, sanitary circumstances permitting.
Theory
This will be determined in due course.
Recommended or required readings
Apart from the short stories (which will be made available through e-Campus) and the novel by Flanagan, the students must read two further novels (chosen freely from a list that will be circulated through e-Campus also).
Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Penguin, 2020).
Theory
Apart from the short stories (which will be circulated in class) and the novel by Galgut, the students must read two further novels (chosen freely from a list which will be made available).
Damon Galgut, The Impostor (Vintage)
Assessment methods and criteria
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam AND oral exam
Additional information:
The written exam exam will take the form of an essay on a short story not previously examined in class.
The oral exam will bear on the book by R. Flanagan and on the two novels freely selected by the students from an official reading list, as well as on a list of critical essays relating to those same novels.
Theory
A written and an oral exam will be organized in May/June and in August/September, 2021. The written exam will consist of an analysis of a (short) short story, while the oral exam will take the form of a discussion of The Impostor and of two novels (of the student's free choice; see above), read in the light of the relevant secondary literature.
Work placement(s)
Not applicable.
Organizational remarks
The course will be organized in the second term.
The seminars will be conducted from 10 to 12h on Wednesdays in Room A4/R-100 (to be confirmed).
Theory
The course is organized in the second term.
Contacts
All queries can be addressed to Marc Delrez, preferably by email: marc.delrez@uliege.be
Theory
Marc Delrez
E-mail: marc.delrez@uliege.be
Tel. 04-3665460
Association of one or more MOOCs
There is no MOOC associated with this course.
Additional information:
Not applicable. Long live the print culture.