1354.18 - Modernism, World Literature, Geography (BA)


Course number
1354.18
Title
Modernism, World Literature, Geography (BA)
ECTS
10
Prerequisites
Students must have completed the required core components of the BA in Faroese. This course can also be taken as an individual course with other prerequisites (please refer to the academic programme in force)
Purpose
To study connections between place/geography and modernism as seen through the field of world literature. The students will acquire knowledge of how modernism takes shape from its expanding movements from nation to nation, continent to continent. Concepts as ‘Geo-modernism’, ‘Global modernism’ etc. will be applied in order to examine the movements of modernism.
Content
Major works within the novelistic Faroese canon will be analyzed. Articles on key concepts will be read e.g. Modernism, World Literature and Geo-modernism. Using these tools the expansion and differentiation of literary modernism will be examined. The focus will be given on the difference between the traditional formal concept of modernism and the world literary approach to modernism being more open to all kinds of context: the geography and all that depends on it of culture, religion, nationalism, politics. The cosmopolitan interaction between the local, the national, the regional, and the global in general will be highlighted.
Learning and teaching approaches
Lectures, presentations by teacher and students, group work
Learning outcomes
Successful students can demonstrate: • To convey knowledge about the connection between literature, nation/place and globalization • To describe different approaches to the concept of modernism • To use concepts within geo-modernism and world Literature • To put the expansion and differentiation of modernism in a world literary context • To read novels and other genre with respect to the connection between modernism and place/geography • To analyze and convey connections between text and context within literature focusing on place/geography • To analyze connections between literature and globalization
Assessment method
Oral examination, 30. min. The students will have one week preparing the answer to an assigned topic.
Examination
External
Bibliography
Curriculum is a total of 400 pages literary history/theory + 5 novels and 1 collection of poems. Primer: Bergur Rønne Moberg: Resten i Vesten. Verdenslitteratur i modernismens margin (Spring, 2014)
Contact
Bergur Rønne Moberg