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Keys for the analysis of Fiction

Clés pour la fiction 02DMI721 / 3 ECTS – 18h / Évaluation session 1 : assidu·es CC ; non-assidu·es ET Dossier / Évaluation session 2 : ET écrit 1h30

18h – Anne Goarzin

Why do we need stories? How do they represent relations, time and identity? How might they shape our lives? How do we study fiction? This course will examine several facets of fiction written in the English language. Through selected excerpts, it will address key questions such as literary genre, the borders of a narrative, the role of rhetoric and that of the narrator as well topics such as truth or interpretation.

Selected excerpts and a comprehensive bibliography will be provided in class to support your learning and research.

Highly recommended readings to reinforce your literary background:

  • Stories of Ourselves, Vol. 1 and vol. 2, Cambridge UP, 2018
  • Françoise Grellet, Anthologie de la littérature anglophone, Hachette, 2015
  • Françoise Grellet, A Handbook Of Literary Terms : introduction au vocabulaire littéraire anglais, Paris : Hachette, 2009.