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| LGER0068-8 | English literature e (Great War Literature)
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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 | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | Second semester | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Christine Pagnoulle |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language |
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Course contents :
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| This year's course bears on works related to the 'Great War', most of them by soldiers involved in this experimental slaughter.
We will read prose memoirs (Frank Richards, Edmund Blunden, Frederic Manning) and poets including David Jones, with extracts from In Parenthesis and The Book of Balaam's Ass, and Wilfred Owen, with poems set in the liturgical context of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem; I will add a brief survey of the diversity of later works inspired by WWI, with an already seasoned novel by Canadian writer Timothy Findley, The Wars (1977). |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| By the end of this course students should have finetuned their reading skills, capacity for text analysis and research methods; they will also, presumably, have learned about history. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Good knowledge of English. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Analyzing texts in workshops. Lecture by a visiting professor. Screening of the film Oh! What a Lovely War! |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face-to-face. |
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Recommended or required readings :
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| An anthology of poems: Minds at War (David Roberts ed.).
David Jones, In Parenthesis andThe Book of Balaam's Ass .
Frank Richards, Old Soldiers Never Die; Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War; Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune.
Timothy Findley, The Wars.
Photocopies will be handed out. Group orders can be placed. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Students have to hand in a essay of approximately 3,000 words dealing with at least two writers. This essay is the starting point of the oral examination. |
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Organizational remarks :
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| 2nd term.
Tuesday 9-11. Room A2/4/17 |
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Contacts :
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| Christine Pagnoulle
Office A2/6/12
32 4 3665438
32 497 541543
cpagnoulle@ulg.ac.be |
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