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| LGER0066-5 | English literature b (The Grotesque)
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Number of credits : |
| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 2nd year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 2nd year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | First semester | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Michel Delville |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Course contents :
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| Renaissance Drama and the Uses of Comedy |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| We will study four classic Renaissance plays individually and comparatively, examining how each of them relates to its historical context and the contemporary audience. Close textual study of the plays will be a springboard for considerations of issues connected with performance and adaptation, social, psychological and sexual orientations, problems of power and authority, the physical and metaphysical dimensions of man and woman, definitions of the comic and tragic, and how all of this relates to the various uses of comic principles and techniques (transformation, the grotesque, social manipulation, the carnivalesque, rhetorical exaggeration and nonsense, satire, verbal wit and parody, the sexual burlesque, comic relief, misunderstandings, ...). Our discussions will be leavened by video recordings and other supporting materials. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face :
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| 1st semester
See : http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
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Recommended or required reading :
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| William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
-----. The Merry Wives of Windsor.
-----. Hamlet.
Ben Jonson, Volpone. |
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Contacts :
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| Michel Delville, professeur ordinaire
mdelville@ulg.ac.be |
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