Durée
30h Th
Nombre de crédits
Enseignant
Langue(s) de l'unité d'enseignement
Langue anglaise
Organisation et évaluation
Enseignement au premier quadrimestre, examen en janvier
Horaire
Unités d'enseignement prérequises et corequises
Les unités prérequises ou corequises sont présentées au sein de chaque programme
Contenus de l'unité d'enseignement
Despite Goethe's ideal of Weltliteratur -- the dream of a common world literature transcending national limits -- the notion of "world literature", which enjoys increasing critical currency at the present moment, still seems often unable to challenge the importance of the nation in understandings of specific texts and conceptions of literary study. It can be argued that this issue is particularly fraught for Australia, whose literature has traditionally been seen as the expression of a national culture attempting to struggle out of an imperial straightjacket, so that the nation appeared to be a natural horizon against which to deploy literary hermeneutic elaborations. The course will rehearse this situation through an examination of a short selection of classic to recent novels, each of which seeks to enlarge the scale of its own conceptualisation, and therefore to alter the sense of nationality attached to the work itself. After a brief theoretical introduction, in which the respective claims of post-colonialism and "worldism" will be considered and compared for the Australian context, some works of fiction (see below) will be examined from a transnational perspective.
Acquis d'apprentissage (objectifs d'apprentissage) de l'unité d'enseignement
A gain in political self-consciousness, perhaps.
Savoirs et compétences prérequis
An interest in literature, and in the world.
A good grasp of English may help.
Activités d'apprentissage prévues et méthodes d'enseignement
Thinking, collectively and individually, within heuristic seminars.
Mode d'enseignement (présentiel ; enseignement à distance)
Face to faces, and the other way around.
Lectures recommandées ou obligatoires et notes de cours
David Malouf, The Great World (1990; Vintage)
Richard Flanagan, Wanting (2008; Vintage)
Gail Jones, A Guide to Berlin (2015; Harvill Secker)
Modalités d'évaluation et critères
An oral examination will provide the students with an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to think by themselves about the texts considered in class, based on a personal selection of relevant critical material.
Stage(s)
Not applicable.
Remarques organisationnelles
The course will organised in the first term (2017-2018), from 9 to 11am in room A2/4/15 (starting on 25 September 2017).
Contacts
Prof. Marc Delrez, marc.delrez@ulg.ac.be