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- demonstrerer kendskab til emnet og de relevante tekster, teorier og problemstillinger.
- demonstrerer færdighed i litteratursøgning, selektion og disponering af et givet stofområde.
- bruger relevante fagbegreber, -teorier og -terminologier.
- anvender relevante analytiske metoder.
- giver en teoretisk reflekteret analyse af afgrænsede problemer.
- reflekterer over den anvendte teoris videnskabsteoretiske eller videnskabshistoriske egenart.
- forholder sig vurderende til den anvendte teori.
William Blake: Not as Mad as People Used to Think
(But Still Not Exactly Sane)
Blake is one of the strangest and most complex figures in English literary history. Dismissed for many years as a more-or-less harmless lunatic, he is now the centre of a vigorous critical industry. His work drew upon a strange mixture of sources and influences - including the Bible, Western and Eastern myths, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, eighteenth-century pastoral poetry, children's literature, scientific texts and empirical philosophy - and he was exceptionally responsive to many of the most important issues of his time, from sexual hypocrisy to global imperialism. In recent years, his ideas have been persuasively compared with those of some of the most influential thinkers of modern times, from Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, through Freud and Jung, to Joyce and Derrida. This course will be designed, first and foremost, to bring about informed and enjoyable readings of Blake's own work, from the deceptively simple Songs of Innocence and of Experience to some of the strange 'Prophetic Books'. At the same time, we will look at the society that formed Blake's work, and which he, in turn, wished to change, and also at the significance of the dramatic fluctuations in Blake's reputation: from widespread ridicule in the nineteenth century to unprecedented popularity in the 1960s and beyond. Due attention will be paid to Blake's extraordinary visual art as well as to his writings.
Bestået bacheloruddannelse.
Dominic Rainsford
Undervisningen i disciplinen foregår på hold, og der lægges vægt på arbejdsformer, der kan omfatte læsning af primær- og sekundærtekster, mundtlige bidrag fra de studerende, holddiskussioner samt gruppearbejde.
Essential text:
William Blake's Poetry and Designs , ed. Mary Lynn Johnson and John Grant, Norton Critical Editions (New York: Norton, 1979). ISBN: 0393090833. NB: no other edition of Blake's work may be substituted for this one.
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
Udvalget af eksamensformer afhænger af, hvilken kandidatlinie den studerende følger.
