Cross-cultural approaches to English literature, (post)colonial and/or (post)modern perspectives and rewritings of the great classics

Language

English

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

At the end of the course, students should be able to - critically approach an author, a literary text, period, movement or critical method; - produce a structured, well-argued discourse that integrates the specific vocabulary and concepts used in literary studies; - analyse a literary text using the knowledge acquired through the course.

Content

This course focuses on the concept of rewriting (including postcolonial and postmodern reconfigurations) through the detailed analysis of texts like Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea", which reconfigures Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", or Michael Cunningham's postmodern rewriting of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs Dalloway", entitled "The Hours".

This course includes 8 hours of workshops. These sessions are meant to help students become more familiar with the texts thanks to activities in which the extracts discussed in class are approached from a different angle. The workshops also include writing tasks and/or short presentations.
The workshops sessions are intended for block 2 students, although block 3 students are welcome to attend.

Teaching methods

Evaluation methods

2-hour written exam (without access to the course material or reference books).

Other information

Course notes with course plan and reading portfolio.
PowerPoint presentations available on Moodle after each session.

Online resources

See on Moodle.

Bibliography

Une bibliographie est comprise dans le syllabus.

Faculty or entity

> PHLB