Blackboardīlackboard will be used to provide students with an overview of current affairs, as well as specific information about (components of) the course. Unauthorized absence will mean that you will fail to get credits for the course. If the final grade is 5 or less students may only resit the final paper. 5,000 words (70% of final mark).Ī sufficient grade (6.0 or higher) for both the presentation and the final paper is required for completion of the course. Some students read fast and write slow and vice versa.Įvaluation of this course will be on the basis of participation in class discussion + an oral presentation (30% of final mark) and of a written paper of ca. The hours above are an approximate calculation only. Mode of instructionġ95 hours of reading primary and secondary material, and preparing the brief presentationĥ9 hours for research and writing of the research paper. Students will be encouraged to share analytical and theoretical views on the texts ascribed in class discussion including short presentations, and to focus research skills on a relevant subject of their own choice within the parameters of the course in the form of a final research paper. Course objectivesīased on the assumption that participants have already acquired the basic skills for the analysis of literary (and visual) texts, this course aims to extend these skills both in terms of textual analysis (close reading) and contextual approach (cultural-historical as well as theoretical). by the Coen Brothers ( O Brother, Where Art Thou) and Wolfgang Petersen ( Troy). We will also (literally) have a look at two film adaptations of Homer’s work, viz. In this course we will read Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (in translation), and study part of the most recent history of their Nachleben, namely, the various ways of appropriation of these poems by American, Australian, Canadian, and British poets and novelists in the twenty-first century, and the variety of approaches to Homer’s work which made this appropriation possible, such as Modernism, Postmodernism, postcolonialism and gender studies.
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