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English Literature : Critical Approaches [ LGERM1124 ]


4.0 crédits ECTS  30.0 h   2q 

Teacher(s) Bragard Véronique ; Bertrand Ingrid ;
Language English
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Prerequisites

The course is accessible to all students of first year who followed language courses during the first "quadrimestre".

Main themes

Close in-depth critical study of contemporary canonical texts. This course introduces students to narratology, stylistics and genre theory. Several literary texts (poems, novels, short stories, plays) are analysed.

Aims

By the end of this module students will have acquired an appropriate range of methods to analyze one or more literary genres through the analysis of canonical contemporary texts (19th, 20th, 21st century). Students will be able to interpret a poem, a short story, a novel and/or a play with basic scholarly methods and tools to approach a literary text critically.

Evaluation methods

Written exam.

 

Teaching methods

Teaching method : formal lectures + 10 hours of tutorial (seminar sessions).

 

Content

Introduction to the nature and functions of literary texts. Literary history and literary theory. Genres and genre studies. How to read a poem ? Introduction to narratology (Fitzgerald, Danticat, Lahiri) What is a novel ? Theoretical approaches to literature : (post) structuralist, Feminist, Marxist, ecocritical approaches to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Focus on English Drama : from Shakespeare to Beckett. Analysis of Harold Pinter's Betrayal.

Bibliography

Andrew Bennett, Literature, Criticism and Theory. Longman, 2009.

Other information

Course materials : Coursebook available at DUC.

Cycle et année
d'étude
> Bachelor in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures
> Bachelor in Information and Communication
> Bachelor in Philosophy
> Bachelor in Ancient languages and Literatures : Classics
> Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures: German, Dutch and English
> Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
> Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures : General
> Bachelor in History of Art and Archaeology : General
> Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies
> Bachelor in History
Faculty or entity
in charge
> LMOD


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