English - Elective Subject, topic 1: Literature and Emotions
Course content
This BA elective will introduce you to a number of different texts that complement your literary readings in your BA programme so far. The texts range from the canonical via the postcolonial to the contemporary. The course engages in the affective turn in literary studies and explores the relationship between literature and emotions. In turning to critical theory, we will also consider how affective science has impacted on literary studies. The course will be organised around 4 thematic clusters, zooming in on the emotions of hate, passion, shame and hope.
Engelsk
Class instruction
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Tentative reading list (final reading list and course plan due December 2023):
Literary texts:
Literature and hate:
Shakespeare, Othello (1604)
Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (1997)
Literature and passion:
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (1854)
Literature and shame:
Sally Morgan, My Place (1987)
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)
Literature and hope:
Hamed Amiri, The Boy with Two hearts: A Story of Hope (2020)
Hassan Akkad, Hope Not Fear (2021)
Theory – Extracts from:
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004)
Adam Potkay, Hope: A Literary History (2022)
Patrick Colm Hogan, What Literature Teaches us about Emotions (2011) and
Literature and Emotion (2017)
Dylan Evans, Emotion: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed. (2019)
Sign up for international students:
Proof of English proficiency is required if you want to take this course. Find the requirements here: https://studies.ku.dk/study-abroad/erasmus/course-information/proof-of-english-proficiency/
Exchange students: apply for courses in Mobility Online. Questions regarding course registration should be directed to visitingstudents@hum.ku.dk .
International fee-paying guest students: visit https://humanities.ku.dk/education/guest/ on how to sign up for courses.
- ECTS
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
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Other
Criteria for exam assessment
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 84
- Preparation
- 325,5
- English
- 409,5
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- HENB01481U
- ECTS
- 15 ECTS
- Programme level
- Bachelor
- Duration
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1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Price
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- Schedulegroup
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See link to schedule
- Capacity
- 35
If there are more registrations than places, the places are allocated by random draw. - Studyboard
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinators
- Eva Rask Knudsen (5-768372847c5179867e3f7c863f757c)
- Ulla Rahbek (4-857c7c715078857d3e7b853e747b)
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