Universität Wien

123047 PS PS Literary Studies (2023W)

ANGELS AND DEMONS: Romanticist & Victorian Constructions and Postmodernist Deconstructions of Femininity (and Masculinity)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
DIGITAL
Moodle

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Mittwoch 11.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 18.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 25.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 08.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 15.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 22.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 29.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 06.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 13.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 10.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 17.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 24.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Mittwoch 31.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course will familiarize students with core-terms of poststructuralist theory such as: discursive practice/constructions and deconstruction in regard to historically-specific patriarchal and feminist discourses on femininity, gender, and the body of the 19th and 20th centuries. Considering aspects of theories by Beauvoir, Gilbert & Gubar, Butler we will explore how these can be applied to an analysis of dialectical constructions of femininity (and correlatively with masculinity) produced by power-discourses of Romanticism and Victorianism; how this dialectics was challenged by 19th cent female literary & poetic imagination and significantly subverted in Modernist and Postmodernist deconstructions.
Special focus will be put on the meaning of the texts in the historical, cultural and social contexts of the respective literary period. This analysis will be embedded in a discussion of related stylistic devices and narrative strategies such as: dramatic monologue, metaficiton, intertextuality, rewriting, deconstruction. Literature will be read in context of responding to changing historical, social and cultural conditions wherein literary devices become discursive tools for critical comment and reflection.

Secondary & partly primary texts will be provided on MOODLE.
There will be Topic-Sheets for oral-presentations & mails with info on reading-assignments and class-organization

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Regular Attendance

Participation in Classroom Discussions

Oral Presentation / Oral presentation
(15mins + 15 mins interactive part)
PPT online via Zoom

Final Written Paper (3150-3850 words)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Regular Participation (2 absences allowed)
Active participation in class-discussions 20 %
Oral Presentation 30 %
Final Written Paper -3150- 3850 words -> detailed info in class & online! 50 %

Prüfungsstoff

NO in-class exams
Students will be introduced to literary texts, media, theories (materials are provided on moodle).
All texts, materials, sources needed will be provided as online-files & links on moodle.
For the final paper students can use these sources + research on their own!

Literatur

Keats, John. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' (1819)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. 'The Blessed Damozel' (1847)
Rossetti, Christina. 'Goblin Market' (1862)
Shelley, Mary. 'Frankenstein' (1818 /1831) ..... (IF TIME!)
Woolf, Virginia. 'A Room of One's Own' (1928) - excerpts
'Professions for Women' (1929)

Duffy, Carol Anne. 'Mrs. Beast', 'Mrs Lazarus'
In: The World’s Wife (1999)
Oyeyemi, Helen. "Boy, Snow, Bird" (2013)

Flynn, Gilian. "Gone Girl" (2012) (film-adaptation by Fincher, 2014)

All secondary sources will be provide on moodle!

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: BA 612; BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-3041

Letzte Änderung: Mo 02.10.2023 08:27