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120065 PS Literature: Proseminar = Introductory Seminar (2010S)

REVISIONS - NEW VISIONS: Postmodernist (Meta-) Fictional Rewritings of 18th and 19th cent Core Texts and Culture

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work

Diese LVA gilt für das Bachelorstudium nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 24 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 09.03. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 16.03. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 23.03. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 13.04. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 20.04. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 27.04. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 04.05. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 11.05. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 18.05. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 01.06. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 08.06. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 15.06. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 22.06. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
  • Tuesday 29.06. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Special attention will be put on the meaning of the texts in their historical, cultural and social contexts, embedded in discussion of literary terms such as metafiction, intertextuality, rewriting, deconstruction, discourse-theories, contrasted to the meaning of realism. Literature will be read in context of responding to changing historical, social and cultural conditions wherein literary devices become tools for critical comment and reflection. The central question shall be why certain core-texts of the 18th and 19th century/Victorian culture (here also: recent theories on Victorian Postmodernism) are revised, rewritten, and deconstructed in postmodernist texts; how this is done; and what is the outcome and meaning (focus on postcolonial and gender aspects).

Assessment and permitted materials

Participation in Discussions
Oral Presentation
Final Test
Final paper (10 pages)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

interactive literary seminar; elaborate and improve skills of literary analysis

Examination topics

Englisch

Reading list

TEXTS:
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. (1719)
Muriel Spark. Robinson. (1958) (gender)
JM Coetzee. Foe. (1986) (postcolonial)

Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. (1847)
Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea. (1966)

John Fowles. The French Lieutenant's Woman. (1969) (metafiction)
A.S. Byatt. Possession. (1990) (inter and intratextuality)

IT WILL BE ANNOUNCED WHICH TEXTS WE WILL CONSIDER IN THEIR FILMIC ADAPTATION.


Association in the course directory

Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612
LI 12-0106, SP-Code 304, 701 / BA11

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