Durée
30h Th
Nombre de crédits
Enseignant
Coordinateur(s)
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
"Climate Change and the Literary Imagination"
In his essay about "climate change and the unthinkable", entitled The Great Derangement (2016; University of Chicago Press), the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh argues that contemporary artists - just like politicians - have revealed a deep-lying inability to grasp the scale and the likely consequences of global warming, so that the theme tends to be underrepresented in high-brow literary culture. Based upon Ghosh's insights, we shall try to fathom the formal characteristics of a few contemporary novels in English which do tackle the theme of climate change, whether or not they do so in the manner prescribed by the Indian author. We shall pay special attention to the following:
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior (2012; HarperCollins)
Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island (2019; John Murray)
Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (2020; Chatto & Windus).
Acquis d'apprentissage (objectifs d'apprentissage) de l'unité d'enseignement
1. Enhance the students' capacity for textual analysis and interpretation.
2. Encourage the students to militate for a reduction of the consumption of the world's resources initiated by their parents and forebears.
Savoirs et compétences prérequis
The course is taught in English.
Activités d'apprentissage prévues et méthodes d'enseignement
Heuristic seminars.
Mode d'enseignement (présentiel, à distance, hybride)
By arrangement with the students, but probably Tuesdays 1-3 pm.
Lectures recommandées ou obligatoires et notes de cours
See above.
Modalités d'évaluation et critères
The students will be requested to write a personal essay, on a related topic of their choice, followed by an oral debriefing with the teacher.
Stage(s)
Remarques organisationnelles
The course is organized in the first term.
Contacts
Prof. Marc Delrez, marc.delrez@uliege.be