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Introduction to Literary Studies (2024/2025: period 1)
Course aim
- Consider literature as a cultural phenomenon
- Reflect on (the history of) the ethical and aesthetic aspects of literature
- Become familiar with different theoretical and critical movements
- Identify a number of case studies in different contexts in which literary texts have influenced social debates
- Acquire a supra-lingual perspective on literature (i.e. beyond the linguistic)
- Reflect on these issues in an academic way using academic forms
- Gain knowledge of empirical methods of studying literature
- Achieve an elementary level of academic writing
- Gain knowledge of online catalogues and databases of sources and learn to work with search systems and digital databases
- Learn to collect data and manage bibliographic data.
Course content
Literature is a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon that takes on many different forms in different periods, regions, and languages. In all of these forms, literature reflects in one way or another the society in which it emerges. In this course you learn to think about the complex relations between literature and society and to write and speak about them in an academic way. We consider the characteristics of narrative, interpretation, poetics, and textuality, and place literary texts and analyses in specific historical and cultural contexts. In this course students will consider these questions via the analysis of one novel from a number of different perspectives in literary studies, such as narratology, memory studies, and reader-response theory.
Additional information
Instructional formats
Preparation
Read the chapters of the handbook carefully.
SeminarContribution
Students participate in discussions and provide peer feedback.
Preparation
Careful preparation of all readings and assignments before coming to the lectures and seminars. Being prepared to participate actively in class, including discussing readings and providing peer feedback.
Examination
Digital exam
Required | Weight 40% | ECTS 3
Students learn to see literature as a cultural phenomenon and are able to reflect academically on ethical and aesthetic aspects of literature; become familiar with different theoretical and critical movements; know a number of case studies, in which literary texts have influenced ethical debates; are able to write and speak about these kinds of issues in an academic way; acquire a supra-lingual perspective on literature.
Assignment
Required | Weight 60% | ECTS 4.5
Entry requirements and preknowledge
Entry Requirements
No data about mandatory entry requirements is available.
Preknowledge
No data about preknowledge is available.
Languages
- English
Course Iterations
Related studies
Themes
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Inter cultural
- - Cultural/national identity
- - (Cultural) diversity
- - Intercultural communication
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Interdisciplinary
- - Creativity
- - Conceptual thinking
- - Social Relevance
Exams
| Type | Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital exam | Wednesday 30 October 2024 | 09:00 - 12:00 |
Required Materials
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BOEKBrillenburg Wurth, Kiene and Ann Rigney. The Life of Texts. Amsterdam University Press.A. Rigney/K. Brillenburg, The Life of Texts: An Introduction to Literary Studies, 2019ISBN: 9789463720830
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BOEKTokarczuk, Olga. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019. (In lectures and seminars we will work with the English translation of this Polish novel. A paper copy is required for the exam)
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BOEKMLA Handbook (9th edition). Modern Language Association.MLA Handbook, 9th edition. Modern Language Association, 2021ISBN: 9781603293518
Recommended Materials
No information available on the recommended literature
Coördinator
| dr. S.M.A. Ferwerda | s.m.a.ferwerda@uu.nl |
Lecturers
| dr. S.S.M. van den Elzen | S.S.M.vandenElzen@uu.nl |
| dr. S.M.A. Ferwerda | s.m.a.ferwerda@uu.nl |
| dr. A.Z. Zdrodowski | a.z.zdrodowski@uu.nl |
Enrolment
Enrollment
From Monday 3 June 2024 up to and including Friday 21 June 2024
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