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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
English
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Leona Toker
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wednesdays 17:15-18:15
Teaching Staff:
Prof Leona Toker
Course/Module description:
The course is devoted to the ethics of literary form. Through a close reading of three of Dickens’s novels the course seeks to establish connections between narrative structure and the ethical vision that informs the text or is worked out in it.
Course/Module aims:
Reinforcement of the students’ narratological training.
Further development of methods for the study of the ethics of form as a branch of narratology.
Introduction to Charles Dickens’s corpus.
Introduction to the specific features of Dickens’s narrative art.
Evaluating the contribution of narrative ethics to a better understanding of Dickens’s artistic achievement.
Developing the student’s skills of literary-researchl writing.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
appreciate Dickens’s art and want to read more of his work;
know basic concepts and distinctions of ethical theory;
command narratological concepts and distinction;
practice narratological inquiry into a variety of narrative texts;
be ready for writing research papers
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Class discussions and close analysis of literary texts that the students have read in advance, in the framework of a number of theoretical approaches.
Course/Module Content:
Utilitarian and deontological traditions in moral thought.
The carnivalesque and oppositionality in fiction.
Information-monitoring techniques in fiction.
Reader-response analysis.
The ethics of literary style.
Required Reading:
Three novels by Charles Dickens:
A Tale of Two Cities,
Hard Times,
Bleak House
Additional Reading Material:
Other novels by Dickens.
For comparison (possibly in term-papers), also novels by other authors on similar subjects. e.g.:
The Gods are Athirst, by Anatole France
Mary Barton, by Elizabeth Gaskel
North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 5 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 95 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Theoretical and literary-critical material will be recommended in class.
Class schedule will be distributed on Moodle and at the first class. The students are required to read the novels assigned before the first class devoted to that novel. It is recommended to read before the semester begins, starting with A Tale of Two Cities.
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