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Intertextuality: mythology, bible and literature
Course Code :1006FLWTLA
Study domain:Literature
Semester:Semester: 2nd semester
Contact hours:30
Credits:4
Study load (hours):112
Contract restrictions: No contract restriction
Language of instruction :Dutch
Exam period:exam in the 2nd semester
Tutor(s)Paul Pelckmans
Geert Lernout
Rita Beyers

 

1. Prerequisites

At the start of this course the student should have acquired the following competences:
An active knowlegde of :
  • Dutch
Specific prerequisites for this course:
Students need to have taken 'Literaire genres' in the first year of the BA.


2. Learning outcomes

Students will be able to recognize intertextual mechanisms in literary texts and more specifically to analyse the impact of biblical and mythological literature on central texts of Western literature.


3. Course contents

The course has two parts: a theoretical section (first semester) and a reading section (second semester). The theoretical section has a general introduction to intertextuality, to the history of writing and the bible, and to Greek-Roman mythology. In the reading section four specific cases will be studied, in which a specific motif will be studied in three texts, one from antiquity, one from the period 500-1950 and one from the contemporary period. For each case the students will read fifty to sixty pages of primary texts.

4. Teaching method

Class contact teaching:
  • Lectures

    • Personal work:
  • Casussen: Individually

    • Project-based work:
  • Individually


    • 5. Assessment method and criteria

    Examination:
  • Oral with written preparation

    • 6. Study material

    Required reading

    Rita Beyers, Geert Lernout, Paul Pelckmans, Sinds Adam en Achilles, Bijbel en mythologie in de Europese Literatuur, Leuven, Acco, 2011.

    In addition, a syllabus with copies of the texts of the case studies will be made available by the end of the first semester. For personal reading the student will choose a text from a standard list.



    Optional reading

    The following study material can be studied on a voluntary basis:
    See bibliography in the course book.

    7. Contact information

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