Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in modern languages and literatures : German, Dutch and English (120 ECTS) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
During the academic year 2014-2015, the course will have for subject «literary History and historicity of the text. Flaubert's Salammbô».
The course will ask the classic philological question : in what measure the sense of a past text is approachable to us ? The course will examine the main positions of the modern hermeneutics, before envisaging the contribution of the discipline of the literary history to the debate. We shall insist in particular on the concepts of «horizon of expectation» and of «space of the possibles». This whole theoretical reflection will then be implemented on a concrete case : Gustave Flaubert's novel Salammbô, whose reading is compulsory.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this course, the student will be able:
- To master and to use the theoretical concepts seen in the course;
- To implement a detailed historicized reading of a literary text;
- To operate the research procedures (bibliography, critical readings, etc.) necessary to reach the previous objective.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is organized as a seminar and requires the active participation of the students.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
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Recommended or required readings
A list of references will be given at the beginning of the course.
Assessment methods and criteria
The evaluation will consist in an individual written work, on a subject to be chosen among a list.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
None
Contacts
ben.denis@ulg.ac.be