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Program(s) |
Course Type(s) |
Seminar |
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| Module Group | English Literature |
Duration |
two-semester module, starting each spring |
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Assessment |
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Language of Instruction |
English |
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Prerequisites
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Students are required to have passed an introductory module in literature at Bachelor-level. The level of English language skills required for this course should correspond to the level achieved on successful completion of the Language Skills and Culture introductory module. |
| Content | This module focuses on how texts are revived, rewritten, and re-imagined - and on the theoretical concepts that allow us to conceptualize these processes of appropriation (e.g. contemporary retellings of the Trojan War, The Hogarth Shakespeare Series, Frankenstein and His Hideous Progeny, Robinsonades then and now, etc.). |
| Learning outcomes | Students will be able to: (a) outline the key theoretical concepts relevant to the topic of their course; (b) comment on - and position themselves within - major controversies surrounding these terms; (c) formulate sustained literary critical arguments that employ and engage with some of these core concepts; (d) write mid-length literary critical essays; (e) present the findings of their literary critical research and theoretical explorations in other formats (e.g. short input papers, posters, visual essays, short presentations, leading a class discussion, etc.); (f) engage in open and constructive academic debates with their peers; (g) list a number of useful techniques to read and understand difficult secondary texts. |
