Syllabus/achievement requirements

Literary texts

• Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
• W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz
• Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
• Ali Smith, How to be both

Theory (subject to change)

• Hanna Meretoja et al., The Values of Literature (Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2015) Introduction, chapters 1, 3 and 5.
• Hanna Meretoja, ¡°Narrative Hermeneutics and the Ethical Potential of Literature¡±. In Jakob Lothe, ed., The Future of Literary Studies (Oslo: Novus Press, 2017), 235¨C47.
• Excerpt from: Martha Nussbaum, Love¡¯s Knowledge (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990)
• Short excerpt from: J. Hillis Miller, The Ethics of Reading (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987)
• Short excerpt from: Leona Toker, Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010)
• Jakob Lothe, revised and translated introductory chapter of Etikk i litteratur og film (Oslo: Pax, 2016)
• Jakob Lothe, ¡°Forgiveness, History, Narrative: W.G. Sebald¡¯s Austerlitz¡±, in The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays, ed. Christel Fricke (New York: Routledge, 2011), 179¨C96.