Study Programmes 2016-2017
| LGER0165-3 | ||
| English literature a (From Colonial to Post-Colonial Literature) | ||
|
Duration :
|
||
| 30h Th | ||
|
Number of credits :
|
||
|
Lecturer :
|
||
| Marc Delrez | ||
|
Language(s) of instruction :
|
||
| English language | ||
|
Organisation and examination :
|
||
| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||
|
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
|
||
| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||
|
Learning unit contents :
|
||
| A sample of representative (colonial, neo-colonial, or ambiguously postcolonial) literary texts will be examined, including some poems, essays, short stories as well as two novels, David Malouf's Fly Away Peter and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. | ||
|
Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
|
||
| After a brief historical introduction to some of the characteristics of colonial literature, the course will seek to offer a guided (illustrated) meditation on the tentativeness of any postcolonial condition, no matter where or when in space or time. | ||
|
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
|
||
| An interest in literature and a working knowledge of our lingua franca (English). | ||
|
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
|
||
| Thinking, individually and collectively within heuristic seminars. | ||
|
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
|
||
| Face to face(s), unless we learn to gaze in the same direction. | ||
|
Recommended or required readings :
|
||
| David Malouf, Fly Away Peter (Vintage)
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Vintage) Other (shorter) texts will be circulated electronically ahead of the relevant seminars. |
||
|
Assessment methods and criteria :
|
||
| An oral examination will be scheduled in May/June and/or August/September 2017, in which the students will be assessed on the basis of their ability to hold an intelligent conversation in English, perceive irony, and identify the political stance encoded in literary discourse, not necessarily in that order. | ||
|
Work placement(s) :
|
||
| Not applicable. | ||
|
Organizational remarks :
|
||
| The course will be organised in the first term, on Mondays (11h00 - 13h00) in room 'Petit Physique' (A4). | ||
|
Contacts :
|
||
| Marc Delrez
Building A2 (6th floor) marc.delrez@ulg.ac.be |
||