Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| English literature b (Renaissance Drama and the Uses of Comedy) | ||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | ||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Michel Delville | ||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language | ||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
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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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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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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, Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Ben Jonson, Epicene, or the Silent Woman.
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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