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Littérature US

  • Cours (CM) 9h
  • Cours intégrés (CI) -
  • Travaux dirigés (TD) 12h
  • Travaux pratiques (TP) -
  • Travail étudiant (TE) -

Langue de l'enseignement : Anglais

Niveau de l'enseignement : C1-Autonome - Utilisateur expérimenté

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Code scolarité: LG20FM20

This unit seeks to place literary works in their historical and cultural context, while exploring their artistic dimension. The tools, methods and practices of textual analysis will be further investigated through close reading and argumentative writing.
The courses on offer (TDs) give students an opportunity to further study American literature through the critical analysis of individual works. Some of the TDs, as well as the CM, introduce students to the study of the relationships between literary and visual forms.
Students will develop their critical vocabulary and their close reading skills. Reading, writing and speaking skills are developed in relation to argumentative analysis.

Programmes

CM: Mme Delage-Toriel. American Comics
This course offers a panorama of American comics, from their origins to the late XXth century. Through the study of landmark works and artists, students will learn to appraise the aesthetics specific to this medium as well as the shifting roles played by this art within American culture and society.  

Groupes de TD:

NB: l'édition papier indiquée est obligatoire.


-Groupe 1, Mme Manolescu.

Contemporary American fiction: representations of identity

Philip Roth, The Human Stain, Vintage, 2005.


In this class we will focus on Philip Roth’s novel The Human Stain (2000) and its representations of identity, especially race. We will place the novel in a series of contexts: the United States at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the Vietnam war, segregation, racial discrimination and also campus politics. We will examine historical contexts, narrative strategies, characterization, and the representations of identity the novel proposes. Please read the novel before co ming to class (use the Vintage 2005 edition; it is compulsory to use a paper edition in class).

- Groupe 2, Mme Delage-Toriel
This course focuses on Octavia Butler's 1979 novel Kindred. Often considered an important precursor of the neo-slave narrative, this piece of work interweaves the genres of speculative fiction and the historical novel. Through close readings of the novel, we will examine the way in which this prime example of black feminist postmodernity maps the interlocutions of race, gender and history. The course will also make incursions into the 2018 graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings and study ways in which the two media may converse within the specific boundaries of their own languages. Bibliography: Kindred, Octavia Butler (Headline edition published in 2018): must be bought and read before the beginning of the course Kindred, Octavia Butler, Damian Duffy, John Jennings(Abrams ComicArts published in 2018) : may be bought -- extracts will be provided on Moodle

- Groupe 3, M. Eastman.
American Cityscapes:
This course will study the portrayal of the city in American art (paintings, photographs, poems and prose texts) of the early-to-mid twentieth century, as a way of introducing the basic issues, practices, and artistic movements in American modernism. In class, we will work on bringing text and image into mutual relation, by linking and comparing themes and modes of representation in a synthetic commentary. Texts, images, syllabus, and bibliography will be made available on the Moodle page.

- Groupe 4, M. Lebold.
FRAGMENTED REALITIES / T.S. ELIOT AND THE POETRY OF A LOST GENERATION
The course will be devoted to studying how, just before and after World War I, T.S. Eliot attempted to poetically confront and integrate a modernity that was fragmented and despaired. His work will be connected to the surrounding aesthetics, culture and philosophy .

Provisional Bibliography:
Baldick Chris, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, OUP.
TS Eliot, Selected Poems, Faber and Faber.
 

Compétences à acquérir

Contextualiser les objets culturels ; synthétiser, décloisonner, transférer ; s’exprimer et dialoguer ; analyser textes et documents ; prendre position et construire un argument abouti ; chercher de l’information.

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Faculté des langues

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67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX

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LICENCE - Langues, littératures et civilisations étrangères et régionales

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