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127012 KO Critical Readings in Literature (2016S)

Postcolonial Shakespeare

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

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 10.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 17.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 07.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 14.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 21.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 28.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 12.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 19.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 02.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 09.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 16.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 23.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 30.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Students will gain the knowledge of the creativity of the selected representative 20th century Anglophone postcolonial literary authors (eg. Jean Rhys and her novel Wide Sargasso Sea and individual shorter texts). They will identify the most significant literary movements and describe the specificity of the cultural 20th century developments in the former British Empire. In this light they will particularly analyze the selected Shakespeare's plays by applying the postcolonial critical approach, which will be discussed at the beginning of the course.
- Orientalism, postcolonial critical paradigm.
- An overview of the various theoretical approaches in contemporary Shakespeare criticism. Postcolonial Shakespeares on stage and film.
- A detailed analysis of his plays (Othello, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth) from the postcolonial point of view and the different possibilities of their staging as well as the film adaptations.

Students will gain the ability
- to understand the postcolonial critical approach
- to acquire the knowledge about the development of various types of critical approaches to the plays of William Shakespeare.
- to reflect on the postcolonial interpretive approaches to some of Shakespeare's plays in relation to the specific cultural environment.
- to analyze individual contemporary film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays in comparison with the original texts.

Seminar, e-learning platform

Assessment and permitted materials

Active class participation and one or two short tests, presence at film screenings; mid-term test, Students are expected to write a brief paper (to be handed in at the time of the presentation) on one of the screen adaptations/rewrites of Shakespeare's 'postcolonial' plays, and to have a brief oral presentation of the paper in class. All students must read all the texts discussed in class.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612; BEd 046
Code/Modul: BA08.3; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3000

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