Students:
- learn to see literature as a cultural phenomenon and are able to reflect academically on the position and history of the ethical and esthetical aspects of literature;
- understand how modern science studies literature;
- know a number of case studies in different languages, in which literary texts have influenced ethical debates;
- are able to reflect on these issues in an academic way and to discuss them in writing and orally;
- acquire a supra-lingual perspective on literature;
- are trained in academic writing in English, Dutch or the language of their major.
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Literature is a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon that has taken on many different forms in different periods and languages. In all of these forms, literature reflects in one way or another the society in which it emerges. Leading questions in the course include: Why does literature exist? What are its characteristics and its cultural, ethical and aesthetic functions? How do literary theory and criticism help us understand the workings of literature?
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Kijk voor meer informatie over de cursus vanaf augustus regelmatig op Blackboard.
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