2023-2024 / LGER0202-1

English literature b: Intermedial approaches to literature and culture

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in multilingual communication (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in multilingual communication (120 ECTS) (Digital media education)5 crédits 
 Master in modern languages and literatures : German, Dutch and English (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in modern languages and literatures : general (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in modern languages and literatures : German, Dutch and English (60 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in modern languages and literatures : general (60 ECTS)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Michel Delville

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

SHAKESPEARE AND THE USES OF COMEDY
We will study four classic Shakespeare plays individually and comparatively, examining how each of them relates to its historical context and the contemporary audience.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Recommended or required readings

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice


Michel Delville and Pierre Michel, Hamlet & Co

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam


Additional information:

examen écrit

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

mdelville@uliege.be

 

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