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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
School of Ancient & Modern Literatures
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof. Gur Zak
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Prof Gur Zak
Course/Module description:
The purpose of the course is to offer an initial encounter with a list of fundamental literary masterpieces from the Renaissance to the present. In each class we will focus on one literary work, analyze its content and form, and explore how it reflects - and shapes - the historical context in which it was written. Among the themes we will focus on in our analysis are: identity and gender, representation of emotions, trauma and testimony, and the reflection offered by the works themselves on the value of reading and writing literature.
Course/Module aims:
To offer introduction to a variety of literary masterpieces that shaped Western culture from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
To provide students with basic tools through which to analyze and discuss literary works
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To discuss in an intelligent and informed fashion central literary masterpieces that shaped the west.
To understand the general line of development of Western literature from the Middle Ages to the modern age.
To offer analysis of literary works based on the main themes that dominate them, their relationship to the historical contexts in which they were shaped, and their dialogue with the literary tradition from which they developed.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal lectures
Course/Module Content:
1. Autobiography and the Emergence of the Modern Self: Petrarch
2. Reformation and Women-Writing: Marguerite da Navarre
3. Shakespeare's Hamlet
4. Hamlet - Cont.
5. The Perils of Reading: Cervantes's Don Quixote
6. The Limits of Enlightenment: Voltaire and Rousseau
7. The Sublime and the Uncanny: Goethe and Hoffman
8. The Russian Novel: Dostoevsky
9. The Russian Novel: Tolstoy
10. Art as Tragedy: Mann
11. The Consciousness of Modernism: Woolf
11. Trauma, Testimony, and the Post-Modern Novel: Tony Morrison
Required Reading:
1. Petrarch, Canzoniere and the Ascent of Mount Ventoux
2. Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron
3. Shakespeare, Hamlet
4. Shakespeare, Hamlet
5. Cervantes, Don Quixote
6. Voltaire, Candide
Rousseau, Confessions
7. Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Hoffman, The Sandman
8. Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov
9. Tolstoy, Death of Ivan Illich
10. Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
11. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
12. Tony Morrison, Beloved
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Home Exam / Referat 70 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 20 %
Attendance / Participation in Field Excursion 10 %
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