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| LGER0166-1 | English literature b (Renaissance Drama and the Uses of Comedy)
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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 | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus , 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Teaching Focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Research Focus | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General, Research Focus, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures : General | | 5 |
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| Master en communication multilingue, à finalité spécialisée en langue et culture, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master en communication multilingue, à finalité spécialisée en langue et culture, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Master in Languages and Literatures : General, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 1st year | | 5 |
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| Modern Languages and Literatures : German, Dutch and English, Professional Focus in Translation, 2nd year | | 5 |
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| Lecturer : | Michel Delville |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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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. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| 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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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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Recommended or required readings :
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| William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet.
Ben Jonson, Volpone.
Michel Delville and Pierre Michel, Hamlet & Co |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| written exam |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| Michel Delville
mdelville@ulg.ac.be |
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