 | |
| LGER0044-1 | US literature and civilisation
 |
|
| Duration : | 30h Th |
|
| Credits/ECTS : |
|
|
| Holder(s) : | Michel Delville |
|
| Language : | Langue anglaise |
|
| Course contents : | Knowing Not to Know: Emily Dickinson and Henry James
Charlotte Nekola (Fulbright Professor)
This seminar combines study of two major American authors not usually examined side by side. Italo Calvino paired these two to demonstrate his concept of "lightness" - a sort of refusal of the need to know, to decide. Few other writers in American literature resist interpretation as vigorously as Dickinson and James; they share a core of ambivalence about the written word, and about the relativity of moral values. We will work to reveal this core of ambivalence in their work, and the tension their obvious enchantment with language radiates at the same time. |
|
| Organization : | See : http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
|
| Written notes : | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson, Little Brown and Co. ISBN 0 316 18413 6 (this particular version of her poems is important; any year of this edition is fine)
Henry James, The American
Henry James, The Aspern Papers
Henry James, Daisy Miller |
|
| Assessment : | - written paper + oral exam |
|
| Contacts : | Charlotte Nekola
c/o Michel DELVILLE, professeur ordinaire
Département de Langues et littératures germaniques
pl. Cockerill, 3
4000 Liège
Tél. 04 366 56 69
E-mail mdelville@ulg.ac.be
Secrétariat
Mme. Martine Delavignette
Tél. 04 366 53 96 |
|
|
| |
