Study Programmes 2016-2017
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| English literature b (The Grotesque) | ||
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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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Learning unit contents :
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| This course investigates the notion of the grotesque - as well as a number of related or adjacent categories such as the comic, the bizarre, the absurd, the baroque, the gothic, the monstrous, the disgusting, the weird and the ridiculous - examining a wide variety of texts by writers and artists as diverse as Hieronymus Bosch, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Henri Bergson, Sherwood Anderson, H.P. Lovecraft,, Mikhail Bakhtin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Angela Carter, Chuck Palahniuk, and David Lynch. Our discussions will include in-class presentations and will be leavened by video recordings and other supporting materials. | ||
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Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
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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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| face-to-face | ||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau (Penguin Classics)
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Happy Days (any edition) William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (Vintage) Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (Vintage) + a syllabus of critical texts, poems and short stories |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| written exam + in-class presentation | ||
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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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