Durée
30h Th
Nombre de crédits
Enseignant
Langue(s) de l'unité d'enseignement
Langue anglaise
Organisation et évaluation
Enseignement au deuxième quadrimestre
Unités d'enseignement prérequises et corequises
Les unités prérequises ou corequises sont présentées au sein de chaque programme
Contenus de l'unité d'enseignement
The course will consist of close readings of a sample of short stories by contemporary English-speaking authors, among whom Janet Frame, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark, Anita Desai and others. A second part will subsequently focus on David Malouf's Fly Away Peter, a novel that will be placed in the context of Australian cultural studies with a view to alerting the students to the political implications of some post-colonial literature.
Acquis d'apprentissage (objectifs d'apprentissage) de l'unité d'enseignement
Enhance the students' ability to understand and interpret literary texts of whatever denomination, and to provide written analyses in the form of articulate essays in English.
Savoirs et compétences prérequis
The course is entirely taught in English.
Activités d'apprentissage prévues et méthodes d'enseignement
Next to the seminars, some attention will be devoted to the difficulties of essay-writing and to the conventions governing the compilation of a bibliography.
Mode d'enseignement (présentiel ; enseignement à distance)
Lectures recommandées ou obligatoires et notes de cours
Apart from the short stories (which will be circulated in class) and the novel by Malouf, the students must read two further novels (chosen freely from a list which will be made available; see below).
David Malouf, Fly Away Peter (Vintage)
Modalités d'évaluation et critères
A written and an oral exam will be organized in May/June and in August/September, 2016. The written exam will consist of an analysis of a (short) short story, while the oral exam will take the form of a discussion of Fly Away Peter and of two novels (of the student's free choice; see above), read in the light of the relevant secondary literature.
Stage(s)
Remarques organisationnelles
The course is organized in the second term.
Contacts
Marc Delrez
E-mail: marc.delrez@ulg.ac.be
Tel. 04-3665460