LITTERATURE ANGLAISE – COURS DE LICENCE
1ER SEMESTRE
FROM MYSTICISM TO FEMINISM IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE
GL180
Enseignant : Juliette Dor, professeur ordinaire
ECTS : 5
Horaire : mardi 14-16, 1er semestre
Local : A2/5/6
Objectif du cours :
Lecture, explication et discussion de textes anglais des XIIIème et XIVème siècles. Approche de la spécificité
des oeuvres médiévales et de leur universalité.
Aperçu général et structure
Examen des quelques textes trahissant une recherche de libre expression, surtout chez la femme, séminaires en
anglais.
Supports pédagogiques : projection de films (notamment Anchoress)
Documentation iconographique et sonore
Prérequis:
Bonne connaissance de l'anglais.
Evaluation
Examen écrit et oral
Notes de cours et ouvrages de références
Un recueil de textes choisis sera à la disposition des étudiants.
Contacts
Enseignant : Juliette Dor, 3 place Cockerill .
e-mail : jdor@ulg.ac.be
"SHAKESPEARE TODAY"
GL140
Teacher: Christine Pagnoulle
ECTS: 5
Time: Wed 3-5 p.m. (1st semester)
Room: A2/6/11
Description : Why do we still read or watch or indeed perform Shakespeare today ? We will look at three of his
best-known plays, Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest. They will be analysed in their historical and political
dimensions and related to contemporary adaptations. Video films will be used as illustrations.
Recommended reference books
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Susanne Wofford ed., Bedford Books of St Martin’s Press, 1994
King Lear, R.A. Foakes ed., Arden Shakespeare, 1997
The Tempest, A Vaughan, ed., Arden Shakespeare, 1999
See also the local web page http://www.ulg.ac.be/facphl/uer/d-german/L3/hameng.htm
Assessment –
Participation in class,
an essay (1500 to 2000 words),
written and oral exams.
Contact
cpagnoulle@ulg.ac.be,
04 366 5438
THE LITERATURE OF TERROR
GL130
TEACHERS: MICHEL DELVILLE, ANDREW NORRIS
ECTS: 5
Time: Tuesday 9-11, first semester
Room: A2/6/11
Course description:
After a brief introduction to the rise of the Gothic novel in the 18th century, we will consider a few classical
works and examine contemporary writers whose works exhibit features of the genre. Film adaptations (Dracula,
Frankenstein …) and other visual material will be offered in support to the stories.
Students will also be introduced to modern critical responses to the literature of terror, and will be encouraged
to speculate on why ghost stories and horror movies (and the appalling in general) continue to attract a huge
readership, on the needs that such a literature satisfies and on the themes of social alienation and psychological
fear and repression that underlie the works discussed in class.
Reading list
Bram Stoker, Dracula
+ three novels and one or two short stories
Reference works
Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny"
Punter, David. The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fiction from 1765 to the Present Day. New York:
Longman, 1980.
Assessment:
Written examination + oral examination of approximately 25m on the works and issues discussed in class.
Students will be asked to write a short essay which will form the starting point for discussion at the oral exam.
2E SEMESTRE
‘NATIVE REPRESENTATION /
LITERATURE’
GL170
REPRESENTATION OF THE
NATIVES
IN CONTEMPORARY
AUSTRALIAN
Teacher: Marc Delrez
ECTS : 5
Time: Tuesday 11-1, second semester
Room: A2/2/3
Objectives:
Introduce students to the contemporary cultural context in Australia, approaching it in a
‘postcolonial’ perspective which is specific to Second World Countries (ie, the settler
colonies).
Structure and content:
After a thorough historical and cultural introduction in which the emphasis will be laid on the
growing recognition of indigenous rights to land (what is now referred to as ‘native title’) in
the present-day spirit of reconciliation, we shall examine recent Australian novels for traces of
this cultural shift. The course will consists of a series of seminars.
Prerequisites:
A fairly good knowledge of English
Reference works:
The following works will be read and analysed in class:
1) Robert Drewe, The Savage Crows (Picador);
2) David Malouf, Remembering Babylon (Chatto & Windus);
3) Mudrooroo, Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World
(Hyland House).
Assessment:
Students will have to write a short essay during term time. Written and oral examination in
June (September).
Contact:
Marc Delrez – office hours posted at the beginning of the academic year, 04 3665460,
marc.delrez@ulg.ac.be
TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY
GL160
Teacher : Nancy Berke (Fulbright Professor)
ECTS : 5
Time : Thursday 1-3, 2nd semester
Room: A2/5/11
Desciption :
This course examines major trends and counter-trends in modern and contemporary American
poetry. We will look at key movements such as Modernism and Post-Modernism, but will
also pay close
attention to the social and multicultural trends often ignored by standard histories of 20th
century American
poetry.
Recommended reference work :
Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Cary Nelson, Ed.
ASSESSMENT
Oral examination. Two short essays that will form the starting
point for discussion at the oral exam.
REPRESENTING LONDON
GL150
Teacher: Eriks Uskalis
Time:
Monday 2-4, second semester
Room: A2/6/8
ECTS: 5
Objectives:
The course will involve the analysis of representations of London from the Renaissance to the
postcolonial and postmodern, and will look at the way growth, history, and political and social
changes have determined the way the city has been represented in a variety of ways, and at
how this has been reflected in a variety of genres.
Structure and contents: Whilst the focus will be mainly on literary representations changes
in architecture, painting and photography will also be considered. Videos and slides will
therefore also be used in addition to the literary texts. There will be from three to four set
texts, to be announced at a later date, and I will provide a booklet containing a number of
extracts.
Assessment:
Written examination and oral examinations of 20-30m, raising a number of questions raised
by the course.. Students will be asked to write a short essay which will form the starting point
for discussion at the oral exam, which will then consider other aspects of the course.
Contacts:
Eriks Uskalis. Tel: 04 3665437 E.Uskalis@ulg.ac.be
Office Hours : Wednesday 12.00 - 1 (Room 6/45)
COURS A OPTION (se donnent aux deux semestres, sauf spécifié)
POST-COLONIAL CIVILISATIONS – OPTION COURSE
Teacher: Christine PAGNOULLE
ECTS : 4
Time: Wednesday 10-11.30
Aim of the course : Presenting the various histories and the present-day situation of former British colonies.
Description : Seminars are taught in English. After a survey of European colonisation from the early 16 th
century to (US) neocolonialism after 1945, including considerations on its consequences in the metropoles and
the global economic changes it initiated, it examines the current situation in countries such as Jamaica, Ghana,
South Africa, India, Canada (British Columbia) and Australia (Tasmania and the Northern Territories).
Students will introduce a country or area and hand in an essay.
Reference works
- DOMMERGUES, André, Le Commonwealth, Histoire et civilisation, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1991
- FERRO, Marc, Colonization. A Global History, Routledge, 1997
- HULME, Peter, Colonial Encounters, Europe and the Native Caribbean 1492 - 1797, Routledge, 1986
- PORTER, Bernard, The Lion's Share: A Short History of British Imperialism, Longman, 1982
- and of course a discriminative use of Internet resources.
Assessment :
- Oral presentation of a country or an area;
- written essay focusing on an issue related to the course;
- oral examination (based on the essay).
Contact:
Christine Pagnoulle, 04 3665438, cpagnoulle@ulg.ac.be
CARIBBEAN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES
Teacher: Bénédicte LEDENT
ECTS: 4 or 6
Time: Thursday 11-12.30
Prerequisite: good knowledge of English
Description: The course begins with an introduction to the historical and sociological
background to Caribbean literature. After a brief overview of Caribbean literature (seen as a
regional, national and diasporic tradition)and its major figures, the rest of the course is
devoted to the discussion of selected poems, short stories and novels, most of them written by
contemporary writers. A new theme is chosen every year. The topic for 2000-2001 is
'creolisation'.
Reference works:
Louis James, Caribbean Literature in English, Longman, 1999
The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature, ed. by Alison Donnell and Sarah Lawson
Welsh, Routledge, 1996
West Indian Literature, ed. by Bruce King, Macmillan, 1995.
Evaluation: written essay and oral examination
POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Teacher: Eriks Uskalis
Time: to be announced later (second semester)
ECTS: 4
Objectives: The course will involve the analysis of several novels from a variety postcolonial
contexts, and the following themes will be looked at: the impact of the British empire on
African writing, dissenting literature, resistance to colonialism and to neocolonialism, the
relationships between genre, politics and the state, nationalism and ethnicity, and the
articulation of myth and oral narratives in the novel form. In tandem with discussions
focusing on the novels the course will also look at the complex and constantly evolving field
of postcolonial theory, and consider the problems of applying theoretical concepts originating
in the West to African writing.
Texts to be announced later
Assessment: Both oral and written. Students will be asked to write a short essay which will
form the starting point for discussion at the oral exam, which will then consider other aspects
of the course.
Contacts: Eriks Uskalis. Tel: 04 3665437 E.Uskalis@ulg.ac.be
Office Hours : Monday 2-3 p.m., Wednesday 12.00 - 1 (Room 6/45)
(QUESTIONS APPROFONDIES
E0S02
DE LITTERATURE ANGLAISE) - POETRY IN IRELAND
Teacher: Christine Pagnoulle
ECTS: 4
Time: Tuesday 11-12.30 (1st & 2nd semester)
Objectives: Seminar discussion of poems written in Ireland over the past 30odd years.
Structure and content: After a general introduction to poetry in Ireland the course will focus on a few
contemporary poets such as John Montague, Paul Muldoon, Mebh McGukian, Eavan Boland, Desmond Egan,
Derek Mahon, Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney.
Prerequisite: A good knowledge of English.
Assessment: A written essay and an oral exam.
Recommended works:
the new poetry, Michael Hulse, David Kennedy and David Morley eds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Bloodaxe, 1993
The Book of Irish Verse, Irish Poetry from the 6 th Century to the Present, John Montague ed., NY, Bristol Park
Books, 1998 (1974)
Neil Corcoran, Poets of Modern Ireland, Cardiff, Univ. of Wales Press, 1999
Contact
Christine Pagnoulle,
cpagnoulle@ulg.ac.be, 04/3665438