Histoire littéraire et culturelle des pays anglophones III

Course content

The course focuses on the history of English/British Romanticism and privileges its poetic legacy. In an effort to understand the Romantics within their socio-political, European, and aesthetic contexts, the class will mainly offer close readings of some major works by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. In addition to these canonical voices, if time permits, certain lesser known figures will also be touched upon.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

a) Introducing students to one of the major and most distinctive literary and cultural movements in the West. b) Further strengthening the literary analysis skills acquired by students in the GERM B 110 and GERM B 205 classes + developing the students' ability to approach a non-contemporary poetic text on their own. c) Providing students with some of the necessary foundations for the GERM B 430 course.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Required and corequired courses

Teaching methods and learning activities

Formal lectures in English + tutorials.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

The poems chosen for the close readings in class vary from year to year.

The set reading for 2023-2024 will in part be excerpted from the following volumes:

BLAKE, William, Selected Poems, edited by G. E. Bentley, Jr. (Penguin Classics, ISBN : 978-0140424461)
WORDSWORTH, William, Selected Poems, edited by Stephen Gill (Penguin Classics, ISBN : 978-0140424423)
COLERIDGE, Samuel, Selected Poetry, edited by Richard Holmes (Penguin Classics, ISBN : 978-0140424294)
BYRON, George Gordon. Selected Poetry, edited by Jerome J. McGann (Oxford World Classics, 978-0199538782)
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe, The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O’Neill (Oxford World Classics, OUP, ISBN :

978-0199538973)
KEATS, John, Selected Poems, edited by John Barnard (Penguin Classics, ISBN : 978-0140424478)

Course notes

Université virtuelle

Other information

Contacts

e-mail: franca.bellarsi@ulb.be

Tél.: 02/650 67 47 (office) ou 02/650 38 24 (secretariat)

Personal interviews on appointment only (Office no.: AZ4.117).

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

written examination
Oral examination

written examination

Out-of-session examination

Open question with developed answer

Oral examination

Open question with short answer
Open question with long development

The evaluation will be organized as follows:

1) a written examination in the form of an essay to be written "out of session" on campus and without access to the Internet at the beginning of May.

Part of Mr Watson's tutorials will prepare you for this essay writing exercise.

However, that does not mean one and the same as the contents of Mr Watson's tutorials being the sole subject of this essay. Logically enough, this essay will concern the entirety of the tuition given, i.e. the contents of my own formal lectures combined with the contents of the tutorials meant to reinforce certain aspects covered in class.

2) an oral examination face to face on campus with Dr. Bellarsi, in session this time (dates in the first fortnight of June to be confirmed). The oral examination will cover, once again, the entirety of the tuition given (formal lectures + tutorials reinforcing them).

Besides questions relating to the texts discussed in class, the oral examination will also involve a part discussing your May essay: so what you wrote will also serve as a basis for questions asking you to clarify or develop further certain points you made in your written argument (this is, incidentally, your opportunity to "repair" certain omissions or ambiguities in your writing--this continuity between the written and the oral examinations is part of a constructive pedagogical dynamic).

N.B.: should a student not succeed in a given academic year (overall grade below 10/20), PLEASE NOTE THAT PARTIAL GRADES ATTRIBUTED TO INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS WILL NOT BE TRANSFERRED FROM ONE ACADEMIC YEAR TO THE NEXT.

IMPORTANT: in conformity with Article 40 of the "Règlement des études" (Regulations Governing Studies at ULB) and the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools defined therein, students are prohibited from resorting to GAI in order to complete a learning task or demonstrate the acquisition of a skill meant to be assessed in a given examination ("recourir à une IAG pour effectuer la tâche ou démontrer la compétence sur lesquelles porte l’évaluation concernée"). If an answer offered during the evaluation process is clearly IAG-based, this will automatically lead to the cancellation of the examination pure and simple.

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

The breakdown of the final mark is as follows:

1) the essay written "out of session" will correspond to 50% of the total mark (with a quarter of the essay result corresponding to the grammatical and lexical quality of written English).

2) the in-session oral examination will correspond to the remaining 50% of the total mark (again with a quarter of the oral grade being attributed to the quality of spoken English (grammatical, phonetic, lexical accuracy + fluency).

Language(s) of evaluation

english