93152 - Dutch Literature 2

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students have acquired a good knowledge of certain periods/genres/movements of Dutch literary civilization and skills in literary text analysis and literary theory. They can present the results of critical analysis of a text in oral and written form.

Course contents

Discourses, images and representations of Africa in the Dutch literature.

Readings/Bibliography

Th. D'haen, Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature, Bloomsbury, New York 2019.

Th. Hermans (ed.), Literature from the Low Countries, Camden House, New York 2009.

E. Boehmer, S. De Mul (eds.), The Postcolonial Low Countries. Literature, Colonialism, Multiculturalism, Lexington Books, 2012.

A. Erll, Memory in Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 

K. Brillenburg Wurth, A. Rigney, The Life of Texts. An Introduction to Literary Studies, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2019.

Teaching methods

Students will write a paper and present it orally at the end of the semester.

Assessment methods

Oral presentation, written paper and oral exam.

Teaching tools

Students with SLDs or temporary or permanent disabilities can contact the relevant university office and the teachers.

Office hours

See the website of Marco Prandoni