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Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der blive lagt vægt på, i hvor høj grad den studerende
- demonstrerer grundigt kendskab til det valgte emne, dets litteratur, teorier og problemstillinger.
- viser færdighed i selvstændig litteratursøgning, formulering af en problemstilling, udvælgelse af relevant stof og disponering af stoffet.
- bruger relevante fagbegreber, -teorier og -terminologier.
- anvender relevante analytiske metoder.
- producerer selvstændigt skriftligt arbejde om emnet.
- viser færdighed i at formidle emnet klart og sammenhængende.
Elsewheres:
A Hundred Years of Other Spaces in Fiction and Film from Britain , Canada and America
"There" is a marker of pointing, precision and definition - but also one of distance and difference. For "there" is somewhere other than "here". This spatial and geographical Other is the main focus of interest in this course, which explores a range of these other places - these "elsewheres" - in selected works of British, Canadian and American fiction and film from the last hundred years. In other words, this course aims to investigate important aspects of the past century by means of some of its different spaces in fiction and film.
The course revolves around the four main works listed below - novels by William Golding, Yann Martel and Paul Auster, and a film by David Cronenberg - which all have in common this investigation of somewhere else. Golding's island narrative describes the marooning of a group of schoolboys on a desert island, and uses this displacement to investigate themes of civilization, savagery and brutality. Like an island surrounded by a roaring sea, humanity, in Golding's book, seems disconcertingly inhuman. The protagonist of Yann Martel's novel finds himself lost at sea, neither here nor there, in a process of gradual annulment, in the lethal and lonely company of the Royal Bengal tiger Richard Parker. Cronenberg's film turns the opposition and supposed familiarity and unfamiliarity of "here" and "there" upside down - as its main character struggles to keep the "here" and home of his past at bay. And finally, one of Auster's latest novels articulates a series of different neighboring regions and spaces in text. It constitutes a gradually emergent map of intertextual topography.
Den studerende kan først indstille sig til prøven i bachelorprojektet, når samtlige andre prøver på de to første år af bacheloruddannelsen er bestået.
Jens Fredslund
Den første del af semesteret består af emneundervisning, der foregår på hold, hvor centrale dele af et specifikt emneområde gennemgås. I løbet af emneundervisningen forventes den studerende at arbejde med skriftlige opgaver og/eller mundtlige fremstillinger, individuelt og sammen med andre. I samarbejde med underviseren udvælger den studerende et særligt aspekt af emneområdet som sit projektemne. Den sidste del af semestret består af individuelt arbejde med informationssøgning og udformning af det valgte projekt, med underviseren som vejleder.
You are responsible for getting hold of the three novels below (which will hopefully also be available from Stakbogladen in time), and I will then, in return, provide a course compendium of the remaining texts for the course. This compendium will be available from Stakbogladen by late August. Also, check the course conference or the department notice board for reading assignments for the first week.
- William Golding: Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Yann Martel: Life of Pi (2002)
- A History of Violence (dir. David Cronenberg, 2005)
- Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium (2006)
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