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40 318 Literature: Make it new
Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål:
Literature: Make it new
Credits:
6
Course code:
40 318
Level of study:
Master
Teaching semester:
2020 Autumn
Assessment semester:
2020 Autumn
Language of instruction:
English
Year:
2020
Maximum number of students:
15
Person in charge
Alma Elisabeth Oftedal
Required prerequisite knowledge
Completed 3rd year
Course content
The elective course is connected to Studio Position’s master course. In the elective-course the students will be studying the themes focused on in the Studio Position-course by reading academic texts as well as fictional texts related to these themes.
The syllabus will consist of a mixture of academic and fictional texts. The direction New Historisism (also called cultural poetics) will inform the selection of texts for the syllabus.
The semester will be divided in two parts:
Part 1: Theoretical study. Work-demands: Oral and written presentations of the academic texts. Reflections on an ev. correspondence between the academic and the fictional texts. Evaluation-form: Feedback on the oral and written presentations.
Part 2: Drawings. The students will be given drawing tasks in relation to the fictional texts. Evaluation-form : Feedback on portefolio.
Learning outcome
Learning outcome
- Knowledge of central directions in modern cultural theory
- Knowledge of how fiction writers have explored the themes in question
- Knowledge of how to write a reflection paper
- Knowledge of how to use drawing as a tool to explore the relationship between literary, cultural and architectural themes.
Working and learning activities
The course will be organized as a sequence of workshops. In these workshops, the students will be given writing tasks as well as drawing tasks based on the texts on the syllabus.
Curriculum
- Colomina, Beatriz. 1992. «The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism». I: Beatriz Colomina (red). Sexuality and Space, p. 72-128.
- Kafka, Franz. Excerpt from Prosessen / eng. ver. The Trial. [Originally published in German, in 1925].
- Pound, Ezra. 1996. «Canto 17». [Originally published in 1928 in the collection A Draft of the Cantos 17-27] I: The Cantos of Ezra Pound.
- Proust, Marcel. Excerpt from På sporet av den tapte tid Bind 1: Veien til Swann / eng. ver. In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way. [Originally published in French, in 1919].
- Woolf, Virginia. Excerpt from To the Lighthouse. [Originally published in 1927].
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe) | Individual | Pass / fail |