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Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der blive lagt vægt på, i hvor høj grad den studerende
- 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.
Each year a panel of judges awards the Man Booker Prize (£50,000 plus a great deal of fame and fortune) to the best novel of the year. A shortlist of six novels is presented first, and the prize attracts a huge amount of media attention. Candidates must be citizens of a Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland, and novels published by the authors themselves are not accepted. Using the Man Booker Prize as its starting point, this course will focus on the issue of quality in contemporary British and Commonwealth fiction. What is ‘quality' in fiction? Can it be defined, and is it at all reasonable to award prizes for ‘best' novels? Is the concept of ‘quality' in fiction universal - in other words, would the winners of the Man Booker Prize have won at any time in human history, or do they reflect trends in modern British/Commonwealth society? Among other things, we will consider the motivation of the Man Booker organisation, the responses of the winners and candidates, and the views of the literary critics.
A variety of aspects of quality in fiction will be analysed, including readability, style, plot, characterisation, and what could be defined loosely as ‘literary merit' (originality, for instance).
Bestået bacheloruddannelse.
Nick Wrigley
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
During the course of the semester we will read the following five winners of the Man Booker Prize:
Penelope Lively: Moon Tiger (1987)
Kazuo Ishiguro: Remains of the Day (1989)
J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace (1999)
Yann Martel: Life of Pi (2002)
Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger (2008)
A variety of theoretical material will also be distributed during the semester, as well as extracts from other Man Booker Prize winners.
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
Udvalget af eksamensformer afhænger af, hvilken kandidatlinie den studerende følger.
