Welcome to Conflict and Creativity in Literature in English at Dalarna University

This course will be taught entirely online. Real-time online seminars are based on group discussions and analyses of the set primary and secondary texts. Some secondary material will sometimes be made available on our learning platform, and Zoom will be used for digital meetings.

Seminars will normally take place on Thursdays between 13.00 and 14.30 (Swedish time), beginning in week 46, on Thursday, 14th November. A provisional course schedule is available in Modules. The Zoom room link is to be found in the course information module and here: https://du-se.zoom.us/j/61865996252 

This course comprises the critical study of a representative selection of literary works in English that engage with the themes of conflict and creativity and the interrelation that exists between these two seemingly disparate yet essentially connected concepts. The specific selection of texts, taken from various historical periods, is drawn from various literary genres such as fiction, poetry and autobiography/memoirs. These are analysed through the prism of contemporary literary and cultural theories while the paradigms of conflict and creativity are reflected in these literary manifestations. Students are therefore expected to both familiarise themselves with and critically evaluate the numerous ways in which the selected literary texts manifest an engagement with the concepts of conflict and creativity in their political, cultural, environmental, familial and individual expressions.

	Course Syllabus			Contact information
	Reading List			Dr. Billy Gray Course Coordinator bgr@du.se
				Prof. Carmen Zamorano Ilena Lecturer cza@du.se
				Dr. David Gray Lecturer dgy@du.se