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.
Literature
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)
Teaching and learning methods
Classes, with particular
emphasis on reading primary and secondary texts, oral discussion
and developing proficiency in English.
Remarks
Fact, Fiction, Autofiction
will be taught in weeks 44-49 + week 50, four
hours/week.
Workload
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 28
- Preparation
- 176,75
- Total
- 204,75
Exam (Module 1, 2 or 3, 2013 curriculum)
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
http://hum.ku.dk/uddannelser/aktuelle_studieordninger/engelsk/
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HENK00015U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- See schedule
- Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Course Coordinators
- Tina Jane Lupton (7-7b707568737c77476f7c7435727c356b72)
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28-04-2017