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120160 AR Travel Writing and the Experience of Cultural Difference (2007W)
Interdisciplinary Course
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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für AHStG-Studienpläne anrechenbar als Vorprüfungsfach K701.
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Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- Dienstag 09.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 16.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 23.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 30.10. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 06.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 13.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 20.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 27.11. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 04.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 11.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 18.12. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 08.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 15.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 22.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Dienstag 29.01. 15:00 - 17:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
The detailed observations of travelers through remote and inaccessible parts of the world have always attracted a large readership. But in what ways did the concerns of travelers from different periods and social backgrounds change? This course compares the style and subject matter of some extremely popular travel accounts published between the early eighteenth century and the present. Reading these narratives in the light of theories about the representation of the cultural other, we will seek to identify the messages they communicated and continue to communicate to their readers. In particular, we will ask to what extent they either created an emotionally uninvolved armchair reader, fired an enthusiastic desire (especially) in their young readers to see the world for themselves, or utilized their comparative vantage point to criticize the habits of their own cultural background.Assessment: students will give a short oral presentation and sit a written examination in the last week of the semester.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
The aim of this course is to explain the nature of cultural borderlines traversed in travel literature. It will also improve the students' understanding of the impact of cross-cultural encounters on the traveler's sense of identity.
Prüfungsstoff
Short introductions to relevant critical concepts will be complemented by student presentations, textual interpretations and discussion.
Literatur
Students need to purchase: V. S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization; and The Virago Book of Women Travellers, eds. Mary Morris and Larry O¿Connor. Extracts from other travel accounts (such as Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle) and critical background material will be available electronically and/or in a Reader.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
501, 701; K701
Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22