THE SUBJECT IN FICTION

Course Information
TitleΤΟ ΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΠΕΖΟ ΛΟΓΟ / THE SUBJECT IN FICTION
CodeΛογ6-459
FacultyPhilosophy
SchoolEnglish Language and Literature
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600007144

Programme of Study: 2024-2025

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective CoursesWinter/Spring-6

Class Information
Academic Year2020 – 2021
Class PeriodWinter
Instructors from Other Categories
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600179689
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
• Familiarization with different theories and definitions of the subject • Identification of the determinants of identity and their role in the formation of the subject • The place of literary texts within the wider historical and socio-political context of their production and reception • Critical reading and analytical skills
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Design and manage projects
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course focuses on they ways in which literary representations of the human subject reflect diachronically altering ideas regarding concepts such as the individual, identity, and subjectivity. We take into consideration the socio-historical context within which a literary work emerges and is subsequently received and consumed, and examine parameters such as gender, social class, and space, as well as the role of history, narration and art in the constitution, formation, and representation of the subject. Students become familiarized with the critical reading of literary works and their characters, tracing the mechanisms behind the construction of the self and the Other. They also learn to identify the ways in which literature subverts the stereotypical assumptions of any given society and the factors that impede the personal growth and self-determination of the individual. Textual analysis focuses on nineteenth-century texts as well as on works of neo-Victorian and contemporary literature.
Keywords
subject, theory, literature
Educational Material Types
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
  • Interactive excersises
  • Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
  • Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures65
Reading Assigment42
Project10
Written assigments20
Artistic creation10
Exams3
Total150
Student Assessment
Description
Final exam (100%) or Final exam (60%) and research paper (40%) or Final exam (70%) and oral presentation or creative writing project and written reflection(30%)
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
  • Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Ενδεικτικοί τίτλοι: • Atkins, Kim. Self and Subjectivity. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. • Baumeister, Roy F. “How the Self Became a Problem: A Psychological Review of Historical Research.”Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 52.1 (1987): 163-176. • Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. • Foucault, Michel. “The Subject and Power.” Critical Inquiry 8.4 (1982): 777-795. • Freud, Sigmund. “The Ego and the Id.” 1923. TACD Journal 17.1 (1989): 5-22. • Heilmann, Ann, and Mark Llewellyn. Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Last Update
11-07-2021