Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
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.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course is entirely taught in English.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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 of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
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)
Assessment methods and criteria
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.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course is organized in the second term.
Contacts
Marc Delrez
E-mail: marc.delrez@ulg.ac.be
Tel. 04-3665460