HENK00015U English, 2013 curriculum - Free topic 5: Fact, Fiction, Autofiction

Volume 2017/2018
Content

What makes a novel feel true?  Is it fidelity to real events, or ways of writing and characterising that reproduce our experience?  Are time and space in novels like those in real life?  And how has truth-telling become a feature of recent fictionality?  This course will start with some recent examples of fiction that deliberately blurs the lines between fiction and reality -- Ben Lerner's, 10.04; Rachel Cusk's, Outline -- and move backwards to look at some earlier works that play with that distinction.  

Provisional primary reading list:

  • Ben Lerner, 10.04
  • Rachel Cusk, Outline
  • Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
  • James Joyce, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
  • Sterne, Tristram Shandy (extracts)
Classes, with particular emphasis on reading primary and secondary texts, oral discussion and developing proficiency in English.
Fact, Fiction, Autofiction will be taught in weeks 44-49 + week 50, four hours/week.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 28
  • Preparation
  • 176,75
  • Total
  • 204,75
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Other
Criteria for exam assesment

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