Code scolarité : LG20FM22
Students will choose one of three courses on offer but each has a limited number of places available. These cover the middle ages, the early modern period, and post-war literature and drama. While the focus is on the critical analysis of individual works, students will also be expected to have good working knowledge of the wider historical and cultural backgrounds to these works and of their literary conventions, genres and codes. Students will be encouraged to practice writing well-structured essays on given themes and topics.

S6 UE2 Littérature GB

• Fanny Moghaddassi & Rémi Vuillemin, Tuesday 8:00-10:00 - Travelling into Magic in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, online edition: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/CT/1:3.2?rgn=div2;view=toc
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Stephen Orgel (Oxford World's Classics, 2008) (recommended edition)

 

• Rémi Vuillemin, Tuesday 10:00-noon - Early Modern Poetry and the Land: an Ecocritical Approach

In this course, we will study a selection of poems written from the 16th century to the early 19th century that are concerned with land and nature. We will see how those poems exemplify specific considerations of space and place, how they interacted with social and economic history, and how they accompanied the progressive emergence of modern intellectual property. We will study forms and genres such as the pastoral, the georgic, and the topographical poem, within the larger framework of questions raised by ecological thought: to what extent can the early modern period be seen as a turning point in the evolutions that triggered the Anthropocene? How did poetry reflect, and possibly participate in those evolutions?

This course also aims to strengthen your knowledge of early modern literature, and of texts usually seen as central to the shift towards modernity.

A booklet including a selection of essential texts (including the poems) will be provided, and made available by January at Imprimerie de la DALI (Studium)

 

• Fanny Moghaddassi, Thursday 8:00-10:00 - An Introduction to Middle English Literature

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (The Franklin's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale), online edition: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/CT/1:3.2?rgn=div2;view=toc and https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/text-and-translations

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Edition: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, A New Verse Translation, Simon Armitage (Norton, 2008).

• Cours de Ciaran Ross (Thursday, 12h-13h.30)

Text book : James Joyce, Dubliners (1914)
Edition: Penguin, Modern Classics, 2000. (Introduction by Terence Brown)

This course focuses on James Joyce’s celebrated book of modernist short stories Dubliners, written in 1904 but not published until 1914. While Joyce considered Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) to be his sole important works, his short stories constituted a milestone in the history of short prose fiction and a remarkable and precocious achievement in their own right.
Our first classes will deal with the Irish literary context, and the wider modernist background to “early” Joyce before looking at the conception, reception, and general structure of Dubliners. Particular attention will be paid to terms such as “epiphany”, “scrupulous meanness”, “paralysis”, thes e being essential to understanding Joyce’s realist aesthetic.
Students are expected to have read beforehand the first three stories of the volume. A bibliography will be put on moodle later in the year.
Moodle address : https://moodle3.unistra.fr/course/view.php?id=22733






 

Compétences
L’étudiant saura exprimer sa pensée de manière cohérente et efficace en langue anglaise et ainsi mobiliser ses compétences afin de dialoguer avec l’autre. Il sera capable de situer des productions littéraires en termes de contextes historique, culturel, artistique et intellectuel. Il sera ainsi à même de situer sa propre pensée dans un contexte épistémologique pertinent. Par la pratique de la dissertation, l’étudiant sera capable d’analyser différents types de discours et documents en tenant compte de leurs enjeux esthétiques, formes, registres et genres. Il prendra position de façon argumentée sur un sujet d’étude et construira un argument abouti. Ainsi l’étudiant aura l’aptitude de produire des synthèses d’informations provenant d’une multiplicité de supports et de sources. En outre, il aura appris à décloisonner et à transférer le savoir-faire acquis dans une matière dans d’autres domaines.