HENB01482U English - Elective Subject, topic 2: Literature and Emotions

Volume 2025/2026
Education

Engelsk

Content

This BA elective will introduce you to a number of different texts that complement your literary readings in your BA programme so far. The texts range from the canonical via the postcolonial to the contemporary. The course engages in the affective turn in literary studies and explores the relationship between literature and emotions. In turning to critical theory, we will also consider how affective science has impacted on literary studies. The course will be organised around thematic clusters, zooming in on emotions such as passion, anger, shame and grief.

  1. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847), Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850), William Shakespeare, King Lear (1606), Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres (1991), Sally Morgan, My Place (1987), Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997), Chimamanda Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and Max Porter, Grief is the thing with feathers (2015).

Class seminars/discussions
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 84
  • Preparation
  • 325,5
  • Total
  • 409,5
Oral
Individual
Collective
Continuous feedback during the course of the semester
Credit
15 ECTS
Type of assessment
Other
Aid
Only certain aids allowed (see description below)

HENB01481E: Alle.

HENB01482E: Alle, dog ikke internet, digitale noter eller andre former for tekst, der kan kopieres og indsættes digitalt i eksamensbesvarelsen.

HENB01483E: Alle.

Criteria for exam assesment