HENA03829U English - Free topic: Problems of Representation in Contemporary Literature
Volume 2014/2015
Content
What happens when
writers put their imaginary worlds into words? How do they
translate an object, an emotion a thought into language? Indeed,
what happens when a three-dimensional body of flesh and blood is
reduced to a two-dimensional character of ink and paper? Why do so
many contemporary writers seem to be writing stories about writing
stories?
These questions branch out into a wide range of related issues concerning the nature and process of writing this course sets out to explore. In doing so, we will no doubt take a close look at the fateful chapter 13 in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman and probe methods of representation fictionalized in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert's Parrot; we may discuss notions of memory in the work of Paul Auster, try to navigate Jeanette Winterson’s labyrinthine canals in The Passion and we will most certainly examine the nature of interpretation in a couple of stories yet to be named.
These questions branch out into a wide range of related issues concerning the nature and process of writing this course sets out to explore. In doing so, we will no doubt take a close look at the fateful chapter 13 in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman and probe methods of representation fictionalized in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert's Parrot; we may discuss notions of memory in the work of Paul Auster, try to navigate Jeanette Winterson’s labyrinthine canals in The Passion and we will most certainly examine the nature of interpretation in a couple of stories yet to be named.
Teaching and learning methods
Class
instruction
Workload
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 28
- Preparation
- 176,75
- Total
- 204,75
Exam 1 (Exam form A - KA 2013-ordning)
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
Exam 2 (Exam form A - KA 2008-ordning)
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HENA03829U
- Credit
- See exam description
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- see link to schedule
- Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Course responsibles
- Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt (6-756b6769776f426a776f306d7730666d)
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