Universität Wien

124344 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature (2018S)

Angels and Demons: Dialectical Victorian Constructions and Subversive (Post-)Modernist Deconstructions of Femininity in Literature and Theory

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

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

  • Dienstag 13.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 20.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 10.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 17.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 24.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 08.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 15.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 29.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 05.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 12.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 19.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Dienstag 26.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

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 Foucault, Derrida, Beauvoir, Gilbert & Gubar, deLauretis and Cixous/Kristeva, we will explore how these can be applied to an analysis of dialectical constructions of femininity produced by master-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. Additionally, we will consider how the angel/demon construction shapes constructions of masculinity in literary representations.
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.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Regular Participation
Participation in Plenum Discussions
Oral Presentation (max. 15 mins per presenter)
Short Written Reflections (300 words)
Final Paper (the lecturer will provide an introduction how to conceptualize the PS-Paper)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

TENTATIVE List of Texts discussed (final shortened and revised list of texts will be provided by end of February)
Romanticism & Pre-raffaelites:
Keats, John. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (1819)
Shelley, Percy. "Alastor" (1815)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. „The Blessed Damozel“ (1847)
Rossetti, Christina. „Goblin Market“ (1862)
Victorianism
Browning, Robert. „My Last Duchess“ (1842)
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. (1847)
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. (1897)
Modernism - Postmodernism
Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. (1936)
Plath, Sylvia. “Lady Lazarus”; “Medusa”; “Ariel” (1965)
Duffy, Carol Anne. “Mrs. Beast”, “Mrs Lazarus” “Salome” In: The World’s Wife (1999)
Beat:
Ginsberg "Howl" (1959)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, BA 612; BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: UF 3.3.3-304, BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-3041

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33