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| LGER0066-4 | English literature b (Utopia/Dystopia)
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Credits/ECTS : |
| Master en langues et littératures modernes, orientation générale, à finalité didactique, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures, germanic orientation, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages, germanic orientation, didactic approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures, germanic orientation | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures, general orientation, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures, general orientation | | | | 5 |
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| Master en langues et littératures modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité spécialisée, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master en langues et littératures modernes, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Holder(s) : | Michel Delville |
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| Language : | Langue anglaise |
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| Course contents : | The Fifty Foot Woman and the Amazing Colossal Man: American Literature, Culture and History of the 1950s
Charlotte Nekola (Fulbright Professor)
This course addresses the social and intellectual climate of the United States in the 1950s. It provides a context for science fiction writers concerned with proliferating technology such as Ray Bradbury, for forerunners of the Civil Rights movement such as Lorraine Hansberry, for social commentators such as Arthur Miller, and beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Diane DiPrima. We will examine films that pinpoint anxieties of the 1950s, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Imitation of Life, and discuss such relevant issues as the discovery of DNA, the resurgence of car culture, abstract expressionism, the McCarthy trials, the Civil Rights movement, and the growth of suburbia. |
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| Organization : | See : http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
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| Written notes : | Ann Charters, ed., The Beat Reader
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Lorraine Hansberry, Raisin in the Sun
(other poetry and essays to be handed out as xeroxes) |
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| Contacts : | Prof. Charlotte Nekola
c/o Michel Delville, professeur ordinaire
mdelville@ulg.ac.be |
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