Welcome to Conflict and Creativity in Literature in English (AEN29A)

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, 13th November. A provisional course schedule will be available shortly in Modules. This seminar time is subject to change depending on student numbers. The Zoom room link is to be found in the course information module and here: https://du-se.zoom.us/j/62357908021 

Please familiarize yourself with the course material and make sure that you will have access to the obligatory literature found on the reading list below.

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.
 
 
You will improve your skills in these areas:

• problematise concepts related to the themes of conflict and creativity in
  relation to literary and cultural theories
• independently analyse and interpret a selection of literary works in English relating to the themes of conflict and creativity
• communicate and argue for, both orally and in writing, their own interpretations and critical judgements of literary, as well as critical and theoretical, texts in clear and correct academic English
• critically reflect on the work of their peers in written and oral discussions, and give constructive criticism.

Assessment:

• Active participation in seminars
• Written assignments
• Independently written paper
• Oral presentations

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