1. SylabUZ
2. Wydział Humanistyczny
3. semestr zimowy 2023/2024
4. WH - oferta ERASMUS / Filologia angielska - Program Erasmus drugiego stopnia
5. Trends in contemporary English literature

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Trends in contemporary English literature - opis przedmiotu

Cel przedmiotu

The course will focus on the recent thematic and forma, tendencies in the recent English language literature (from around the turn of the 20th and the 21st centuries until now). Students will have a chance to read a number of texts - mainly fiction which comments on the changes that have been taking place in the world - climactic, political, and technological, and so reflect the complexity of the contemporary world.  Among the topics for discussion there will be: climatic disasters, relationships between the human and nature, between the human and the animals, human and animal rights, trans- and post-humanism, globalisation, as well as migration; We are also going to see how the development of technology has influenced the form of contemporary fiction (e.g. twitterature).

 

Wymagania wstępne

Zapisz zmiany

Interest in literature and openness to challenges will be an asset in the course.

Zakres tematyczny

An overview of new trends in English language literature will be presented at the beginning of the course, yet only some of them will be discussed more broadly during subsequent classes (due to time limitation of the course); the focus of the course will be on eco-critical theory and so we will address problems such as - relationships between the human and nature, status and rights of animals, human rights and post-humanism. 

Metody kształcenia

- text analysis 

- class discussion

- group work

- informal lecture

- audio-visual presentation

 

 

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Warunki zaliczenia

To earn a positive grade in the course, you need to take active part in the class discussion to show that you have done your reading tasks and thought the material over in preparation for class discussion; you will also be asked to submit a written work whose form will be decided during the course by the teacher running it. 

 

 

 

 

Literatura podstawowa

Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake.

Coetzee, John M. Disgrace.

--------. Lives of Animals.

Cole, Teju. Incoming.

Egan, Jennifer. The Black Box.

Literatura uzupełniająca

Baumbach, Sybille and Birgit Neumann (eds.). New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century  Anglophone Novel.

Greg Garrard. Ecocriticism.

Goodbody, Axel and Kate Rigby (eds). Ecocritical Theory. New European Approaches.

Reading list may be supplemented by the teacher running the course; in that case it will be announced at the beginning of the course..

Texts unavailable in the university library will be provided by the teacher running the course. 

Uwagi

None.

Zmodyfikowane przez dr Mirosława Kubasiewicz (ostatnia modyfikacja: 02-02-2024 18:54)