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123423 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English (2017W)

New Historicist and Cultural Materialist Approaches to Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

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

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. 18 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 12.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 19.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 09.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 16.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 23.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 30.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 07.12. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 14.12. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 11.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 18.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 25.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This interactive course will focus on New Historicist and Cultural Materialist approaches to early modern literature and culture. The main focus will be on the theatricality of early modern culture and court politics as a driving force of the rise of early modern drama, the circulation and negotiation of social energy & power relations, the importance of the human body as a site of (dis)empowerment, the 'spectacle of the scaffold' , the emergence of subjectivity & the human subject.

Assessment and permitted materials

seminar paper
presentation of a topic in class
active participation in classroom discussion

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

pass rate 51%
assessment criteria: seminar paper 50%; presentation 30%; classroom discussion 20%
maximum of unexcused absences: 2

Examination topics

The texts and topics covered in class.

Reading list

Primary Sources: Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, King Lear; The Tempest etc.
Secondary Sources: selected articles by Barker, Dollimore, Foucault, Greenblatt, Montrose etc.

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, MA 844;
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-322, BA09.2, 10.2, MA4, MA6, MA7
Lehrinhalt: 12-0265

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