ENG-3122 | UiT

Application deadline

Applicants from Nordic countries: 1 June for the spring semester and 1 December for the autumn semester. Applicants from outside the Nordic countries: 1 October for the spring semester and 15 April for the autumn semester.

Type of course

The course may be taken as a single course by students who qualify for admission to the master`s programme in English literature.

Admission requirements

This course may be taken as a single course by students who meet the admission requirements for the master's programmes in Linguistics/Literature. A good command of oral and written English is required.

Application code: 9371 (Nordic applicants). More information on admission requirements: General admission requirements - Master

Course content

The course will look at a number of novels that thematize the difficulty of writing novels after modernism and will question the relevance of the genre in contemporary literary discourse. Is the novel still a powerful literary form in the 21st century, or has it run its course? What are its defining conventions? The discussion will focus on current philosophical issues, such as the possibility of portraying subjective experience, the novel¿s Eurocentric past and the novel¿s shifting generic boundaries.

Objectives of the course

The students have the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge

The student has:

Students will learn and become proficient in the primary and secondary texts assigned for the course.
Students will gain knowledge of crucial concepts in postmodern and contemporary narrative poetics.
Students will learn about the state of the novel in relation to the history of the genre.

Skills

The student is able to / can:

Students will demonstrate an ability to analyse complex literary texts both orally and in writing.
Students will demonstrate their ability to engage critically with theoretical and philosophical concepts, such as paranoid hermeneutics, paratextuality, metafiction.
Students will be able to incorporate secondary sources into their final paper.

Language of instruction and examination

English.

Teaching methods

The course will be taught over thirteen weeks of two-hour seminar meetings. There will be teaching-free periods for academic supervision.

Quality assurance: All courses undergo a halfway evaluation once in a 2-year period at the master`s level. The Programme Board determines which programme options will be evaluated per year, and which courses will be evaluated by the students and the teacher per year.

Assessment

Six written responses to one discussion question of each novel. 500-600 carefully chosen, well-organized and revised words. The obligatory coursework requirements must be approved in order to take the final exam.

A term paper of 10-15 pages (one page is equivalent to 2300 characters without spaces, 1.5 line spacing, font size 12). Performance in the course will be assessed on an A-F grades scale. Grades are A-E for passed and F for failed.

A re-sit examination is offered in the event of an F grade. The deadline to register for a re-sit examination is January 15th for the autumn semester and August 15th for the spring semester.

autumn 2017 ENG-3122 The Novel after the Death of the Novel - 10 ECTS