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Rethinking European Literatures

SAYERS BRIAN

Course Code etc
Academic Year 2024
College College of Arts
Course Code AL398
Theme・Subtitle
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Theme・Subtitle
Campus Lecture
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Wed.3・9205
Credit 2
Course Number ART3201
Language English
Class Registration Method Lottery Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges 履修登録システムの『他学部・他研究科履修不許可科目一覧』で確認してください。
course cancellation 〇(履修中止可/ Eligible for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
Notes 定員10名 GLAP併置科目(英語による授業)
履修にあたってはIELTS6.0程度の英語力が求められる
Text Code AL398

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Course Objectives

Probably because of their universal themes, each of the texts studied in this course continue to resonate with readers generation after generation. In this course students will study a modern novel, a play and a selection of poetry by each of three ‘European’ writers. The demands of this course will enhance students' ability to analyze and discuss the key issues dealt with in the texts studied. Students are required to complete assigned readings and prepare answers to discussion questions in note form before coming to class. They will also write an essay of 1,200-1,500 words on one of the writers studied on the course.

Course Contents

W. B. Yeats belonged to the protestant, Anglo-Irish minority that controlled Ireland since at least the end of the 17th century, but always staunchly affirmed his Irish nationality. Although he lived in London for 14 years of his childhood, Yeats maintained his Irish cultural roots, featuring Irish legends and heroes in many of his poems and plays. Yeats's fellow Dubliner Oscar Wilde lived a life that was in many ways as colorful and dramatic as those of the characters in his plays. Salome (1893) is Wilde's French play par excellence. He wrote the script directly in French, during a prolonged stay in Paris at the end of 1891. In Salome, Wilde retells a well-known biblical story of an icon of revenge - the daughter of Herodias. The novel on this course, Heart of darkness, was written by Joseph Conrad, born in Berdichev, Ukraine to Polish parents. Heart of Darkness brought attention to the barbarity of Belgian colonial control of central Africa established in the 1880s to exploit the region.

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