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
Continuous assessment of course work
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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).
- Registration is open from Mo 11.09.2017 00:00 to Th 21.09.2017 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.10.2017 23:59
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
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
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.
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
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-322, BA09.2, 10.2, MA4, MA6, MA7
Lehrinhalt: 12-0265
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