Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English 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
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, Nadine Gordimer and others. A second part will subsequently focus on Damon Galgut's The Impostor, a novel that will be placed in the context of South African 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, hybrid learning)
This will be determined in due course.
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Recommended or required readings
Apart from the short stories (which will be circulated in class) and the novel by Galgut, the students must read two further novels (chosen freely from a list which will be made available).
Damon Galgut, The Impostor (Vintage)
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
Any session :
- In-person
oral exam
- Remote
oral exam
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
A written and an oral exam will be organized in May/June and in August/September, 2021. 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 The Impostor 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@uliege.be
Tel. 04-3665460