THE SUBJECT IN FICTION
| Title | ΤΟ ΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΠΕΖΟ ΛΟΓΟ / THE SUBJECT IN FICTION |
| Code | Λογ6-459 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600007144 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2023 – 2024 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Instructors from Other Categories | |
| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600248963
|
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600248963
- eLearning:
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
• In-depth understanding of the place of literary texts within the wider historical and socio-political context of their production and reception
• Practice of critical reading and analytical skills
• Practice of oral skills and academic writing
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 international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- 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, identity, 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
Description
The e-learning platform will be used to support various course needs and activities.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 65 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 42 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Project | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Written assigments | 20 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Artistic creation | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Exams | 3 | ✓ | |||
| Total | 150 |
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
05-07-2022
