Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
Dutch language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course proposes to study the heterolingual author and his texts. Who is this author? Is he a nomad? A traveller? A homeless or undocumented person? Does he slip between national identities as his texts venture between languages? And how should these texts be read? What challenges do they pose to reading and to the way we live our daily lives? What analytical strategies should we deploy to analyse the appearance of different languages in the same literary text? And last but not least: what lessons can we learn in terms of welcoming the other (language)?
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
To give students a better understanding of the interaction between society and literature. Due to the globalisation of cultural exchanges and the increase in migratory flows, the literary productions of the last decades are less and less profiled as monolingual objects. Rather, they are seen in terms of the 'heterolingual' relationship they have with their readers, since they frequently challenge the latter with the 'other' languages they contain. This course aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools necessary to analyze the heterolingualism of a literary work while establishing links with the major societal changes of the early 21st century.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Good command of spoken and written Dutch.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
A theoretical introduction followed by an interactive analysis of novels.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
Lectures, followed by group discussions and analyses.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
Further information:
- Powerpoint presentation about the theory
- Cees Nooteboom, Heinz (2009)
- Hella Haasse, Oeroeg, (1948)
- Henk Van Woerden, Een mond vol glas (1998)
- Fikry El Azzouzi, Drarri in de nacht (2015)
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Further information:
Discussion based on (individual) work submitted by the first day of the block. During the examination, students must be able to establish links between their work and the course.
The work will first be the subject of an oral presentation during the last class (20% of points). The work itself counts for 40% of points. Finally, the discussion during the oral exam also counts for 40% of points.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Matthieu Sergier
Département de Langues et littératures modernes
3, Place Cockerill, B-4000 Liège
E-mail: matthieu.serghier@uliege.be