Duration
Theory : 30h Th
Bibliographic research : 2h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
Theory : Marc Delrez
Bibliographic research : Marc Delrez
Coordinator
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 seminars providing close readings and discussions of lyrical poems in English from the Elizabethan period and beyond. Whilst Shakepeare's sonnets will be prominent on the selection, we shall examine also how the art of sonneteering is thematized in some dramatic works by this author, especially in Romeo and Juliet.
Theory
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
The aim is to enhance the students' ability to understand and interpret literary texts in the historical contexts of their production, and to provide analyses in the form of articulate essays written in English.
Theory
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
Some remembrance of the course on the history of English literature (first part), and especially of the chapter on the English Renaissance, will come in handy - though the relevant literary-historical information will be sketched again.
Theory
The course is entirely taught in English.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Heuristic seminars in class; written assignments (essays). The latter however will be subject to the availability of staff qualified to provide informed corrections/feedback.
Theory
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)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
Face to face, sanitary circumstances permitting.
Theory
This will be determined in due course.
Recommended or required readings
The poems will be made available in class.
An additional reading list of modern or contemporary novels will be circulated towards preparation of the oral exam (see below).
Theory
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
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam AND oral exam
Additional information:
The written exam exam will take the form of an essay on a lyrical poem from the English Renaissance.
The oral exam will bear on two novels freely selected by the students from an official reading list, as well as on a list of critical essays relating to those same novels.
Theory
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)
Not applicable. It is well known that literature serves no identifiable purpose whatever.
Organizational remarks
The course will be organized in the second term.
The seminars will be conducted from 10 to 12h on Wednesdays in Room A4/R-100 (to be confirmed).
Theory
The course is organized in the second term.
Contacts
All queries can be addressed to Marc Delrez, preferably by email: marc.delrez@uliege.be
Theory
Marc Delrez
E-mail: marc.delrez@uliege.be
Tel. 04-3665460
Association of one or more MOOCs
There is no MOOC associated with this course.
Additional information:
Not applicable. Long live the print culture.