Topic outline

  • General

  • Course Description

    Semester: 05+06 (L3)

    Teaching Unit: Fundamental

    Module: Study of Literary Texts

    Teachers: Dr Souad BAGHLI BERBAR, Dr Badra MENOUER, Ms Lina SERIR

    Credits: 03                                                                                            

    Coefficient: 03



    • Contact Details

      Dr. Souad Baghli Berbar

      souad.baghli@univ-tlemcen.dz

      Ms. Lina Serir 

      lina.serir@univ-tlemcen.dz


    • L3 Study of literary texts

      Semester One: Modernism


      Syllabus

      Introduction to Modernism

      James Joyce “The Dead” from Dubliners

      Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

      Modernist Poetry: 

      W. B. Yeats “The Second Coming”

      T. S. Eliot "A Game of Chess" from The Waste Land

      References

      Bain, Beaty, Hunter (eds). The Norton Introduction to Literature 

      Baym, Nina (gen. ed.). The Norton Anthology of American Literature 

      Daiches, David. The Novel and the Modern World 

      McMichael, George (gen. ed.). The Concise Anthology of American Literature 

      or any work on Modernism.



  • Lecture One: Introduction to Modernism


    • intro to Modernism

      Modernism is a literary movement that came as a reaction to Realism. It is a total break with the past following Ezra Pound's call: "Make it Modern! Make it new!".


  • Lecture 2: James Joyce "The Dead"

    • Dubliners

    • James Joyce's "The Dead" from the collection Dubliners

      Before analyzing the short story "The Dead", read the attached glossary to become familiar with some references and allusions used by James Joyce.


  • Lecture 3: Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

  • Lecture 4: Modernist Poetry

  • Semester Two: World Literature

    • Second Semester Syllabus

      World Literature

      Introduction

                  Postcolonialism

                  Postmodernism

      African Literature

      Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

      African-American Literature (From Slave Narratives to #BlackLivesMatter)

      Toni Morrison Beloved

      Asian Literature

      Indian literature: Amitav Gosh The Shadow Lines

      Pakistani Literature: Soniah Kamal Unmarriageable

      Caribbean Literature

      V. S. Naipaul The Mimic Men

      Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea


    • Postmodernism