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124084 VK BEd 08a.3: VK Literature for Language Teachers (2022S)

Animal Writes: The Nonhuman in Literature

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

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

This course takes place in-person.
The lecturer for this course is employed on a fixed-term contract and is not a member of the faculty.

  • Tuesday 08.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 15.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 22.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 29.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 05.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 26.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 03.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 10.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 17.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 24.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 31.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 14.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 21.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Tuesday 28.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Since at least the Renaissance, the “human” has been the organizing concept of cultural, philosophical, scientific, political, economic, historical, literary, and critical debates. Yet, significant theoretical movements in nonhuman studies (animal studies, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, posthumanism, cyborg theory) have challenged the ontologies and ethics of anthropocentrism. By focusing rather on literary representations of animals, landscapes, topographies, environments, prosthetics, machines, networks, cyborgs, and AI in diverse historical contexts and literary genres (sci-fi, children’s literature, romanticism, gothic, mystery, horror, modernism, black speculative fiction, feminist utopias, manga), together we will consider how the limits of the human are constantly tested, redrawn, and multiplied in the literary event.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Explain and interpret a selection of primary texts associated with a particular topic, theme or genre of literature.
• Interpret individual works within their historical and cultural contexts.
• Synthesize ideas from several texts in order to answer over-arching questions.
• Compose thesis-driven, textually supported literary analyses that apply the conventions of literary study, including close reading.

Assessment and permitted materials

• Regular attendance and preparation of assigned weekly readings
• Active participation in class on- and offline
• Short writing assignments
• BEd paper or proseminar paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Attendance:
No more than two lessons may be missed without certified medical reason. If a doctor’s note is produced, a third lesson may be missed but will need to be compensated for at the teachers’ discretion. If more than three lessons are missed, this results in failing the course.

Active participation: 10%
Small written assignments: 25%
academic paper: 65%

Points must be collected in all of these areas to pass. The pass mark is 60%.
1: 100 – 98,99%
2: 89,98 – 79,99%
3: 79,98 – 69,99%
4: 69,98 – 60%
5: 59,99% and below

Examination topics

Reading list

Anna Barbauld, "The Mouse's Petition"
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Dog"
Margaret Atwood, "Song of the Worms"
William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
H.D. "Oread"
Margarate Atwood, "Cell"
H.G. Wells, "The Star", "The Triumphs of a Taxidermist"
Myles na Gopaleen, "Two in One"
Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
H.G. Wells, "The Island of Dr Moreau"
Philip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Val Plumwood, "Feminism and the Mastery of Nature" (excerpts)
Jacques Derrida, "The Animal that Therefore I Am" (excerpts)
Julia Kristeva, "Powers of Horror" (excerpts)
Jane Bennett, "Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things" (excerpts)
N. Katherine Hayles, "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Information" (excerpts)
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" (excerpts)

Association in the course directory

Studium: BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BEd 8a.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4683

Last modified: Tu 08.03.2022 16:28