Inleiding tot de Nederlandse letterkunde

3 ECTS credits
90 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1023810ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Hans Vandevoorde (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

6 contact hours Lecture
20 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
32 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

In this tutorial students will practice the analysis of prose and poetry in Dutch.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Ppts & eventuele hand-outs
Digital course material (Recommended) : Algemeen letterkundig lexicon, http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/dela012al
Practical course material (Required) : Teksten

Additional info

This course focusses on teaching students the main concepts and terminology regarding Dutch literature and the analysis of prose and poetry in Dutch. These concepts and terminology will be practice by means of key literary pieces.

-In three lectures questions will be treated by means of text extracts. These questions include: what, how and why should we read? What is the (literary) Canon? What is a genre and which genres are prominent in Dutch literature? What is periodisation and how is it manifested in Dutch literature? What is recpetion? What is the position of "littérature mineure" in world literature? What is the relation between a literary text and its historical context?

- In 5 lectures prose and poetry will be analysed and the main focus will be on key principles of the analysis of prose (e.g. genre, narrator, focalisation, space and time, characters) and key principles of the analysis of poetry (e.g. poetry styles, versification, stylistic devices and the lyrical I).

- The extracts of literary texts that will be used during this course come from both contemporary/modern literary works as well as historical prose and poetry.

Learning Outcomes

General Competences

The students gain insights in the key questions of Dutch literature.

The students can independently recognise and apply the main concepts of literary analysis

The students can find adequate secondary sources with regard to analysing and interpreting literary texts indepentently.

The students can reflect critically about existing interpretations of texts.

The students can independently link different texts.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 20% of the final mark.
Practical Exam determines 80% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Mondeling with a relative weight of 20 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Schrijven & presentatie with a relative weight of 80 which comprises 80% of the final mark.

Note: Schrijf- en presentatie opdrachten met een wegingsfactor 80 en aldus 80% van het totale eindcijfer.

Additional info regarding evaluation

For the oral exam the students will given 15 minutes of written preparation time. Students cannot pass the exam if they do not master Standard Dutch. The written preparation merely serves as support for the students. Their preparation should be submitted at the end of the oral exam, however this will not be assessed.

All assignements should be done/submitted before a student can participate the oral exam.

In a study guide that the lecturer provides at the beginning of the semester, the evaluation of this course will be specified in a definite manner.

The use of generative AI is prohibited when it comes to creating output for the assignements.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context