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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.
The 20 th century's history of unprecedentedly rapid rationalization, urbanization, and industrialization has been punctuated by recurrent critiques of a society that is frequently seen as having become ever more artificial, unhealthy, technology-dependent and environmentally destructive - in a word, ever more removed from the standard of nature. From the simple-lifers of the early 1900s to the mid-century beatniks and hippies and the ecologists of more recent decades, critics of modern society have sought ways to recover a more "natural" way of life. Sometimes they have relocated from the city to the country to establish communal societies with likeminded individuals; at other times they have explored reformist lifestyle techniques ranging from outdoor hiking to nudism, vegetarianism, organic gardening and free love
Throughout this long history, the novel has served as an important and powerful vehicle both for critiquing industrial culture and for envisioning what a more natural alternative might look like. In this course we will try to unravel the countercultural motives and impulses informing a range of novels from the early-20 th -century heyday of modernization to the Age of Ecology in the 1970s. We will ask what these novels have in common, if anything, and to what extent they might be seen as forming a continuous tradition. In the process, we are likely to discover that the back-to-nature novel, although often propounding a social ideal of natural simplicity, is itself anything but simple and straightforward. Mirroring the complexity and ambiguity of the back-to-nature movement itself, the novels that emerged from it were characteristically open-ended and Janus-faced, at once nostalgic and utopian, backward- and forward-looking, anti-modern and modern.
Bestået bacheloruddannelse.
Peter Mortensen
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.
Engelsk
List of primary texts (subject to revision and availability):
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
Udvalget af eksamensformer afhænger af, hvilken kandidatlinie den studerende følger.
