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Identical coursesWestern Literature: Texts and Contexts (B-KUL-F0ZH5A)
Cannot be taken as part of an examination contractAims
The students acquire a well-founded and representative knowledge of crucial works in the tradition of Western literature. Through reading, study, and seminars, the students acquire the capacity to understand and interrogate these works and the tradition to which they belong in a critical way.
Previous knowledge
Students have a basic knowledge of crucial aspects of comparative literary research: insights in institutional processes of transmission and canonization, in the the importance of poetological ideas, and in the rudiments of textual analysis and interpretation. Students are acquainted with the development of Western literature and of the relation between literature and its social and cultural contexts.
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Activities
3 ects. Western Literature: Texts and Contexts, Part 1 (B-KUL-F0ZH5a)
Content
The course consists in a series of seminars that each focus on a crucial work in the Western literary tradition and is taught by a lecturer with exceptional expertise on the work. During the seminar, the lecturer situates the work in its cultural, social, and literary historical contexts with reference tot he concepts that are developed in “Western Literature: Concepts and Questions (B-KUL-F0UX8A).” There is special emphasis on processes of canonization, historical change, intercultural transfer, and the tension between consolidation and contestation of the tradition. After the opening discussion, students have a chance to engage in dialogue on the basis of their thorough written preparation.
Course material
The students read the assigned works in a language of their choice. Secondary texts will be made available on Toledo.
Language of instruction: more information
The seminars will take place in English.
Format: more information
The course consists in interactive seminars.
3 ects. Western Literature: Texts and Contexts, part 2 (B-KUL-F0ZH6a)
Content
The course consists in a series of seminars that each focus on a crucial work in the Western literary tradition and is taught by a lecturer with exceptional expertise on the work. During the seminar, the lecturer situates the work in its cultural, social, and literary historical contexts with reference tot he concepts that are developed in “Western Literature: Concepts and Questions (B-KUL-F0UX8A).” There is special emphasis on processes of canonization, historical change, intercultural transfer, and the tension between consolidation and contestation of the tradition. After the opening discussion, students have a chance to engage in dialogue on the basis of their thorough written preparation.
Course material
The students read the assigned works in a language of their choice. Secondary texts will be made available on Toledo.
Language of instruction: more information
The seminars will take place in English.
Format: more information
The course consists in interactive seminars.
Evaluation
Evaluation: Western Literature: Texts and Contexts (B-KUL-F2ZH5a)
Explanation
Evaluation on the basis of the written preparations,active participation in the seminars and the essay assignments.
Information about retaking exams
essays for which an insufficient mark (10/20) was obtained have to be remade and resubmitted.