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Lehrende: M. A. Ruth Knepel
Veranstaltungsart:
Proseminar
Orga-Einheit: FB02 / Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (Institut)
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Literary History PS
Fach:
Anrechenbar für:
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Lehrinhalte:
Course description
Why is the Vampire an omnipresent favourite in bookshelves and movie theatres? What lies behind the everlasting fascination for the ageless undead? And why has the highly sexualised literary figure of the vampire all of a sudden experienced a renaissance in teenage dreams? This seminar provides a historical survey of the vampire in literary and filmic productions. We will discuss the different topoi connected with this mysterious figure in texts from folklore to classic novels to modern bloodsucker tales such as Anne Rice’s "Vampire Chronicles" or Stephanie Meyer’s "Twilight" saga or the most recent TV series productions concerned with „True Blood“.
Participants are required to purchase:
Meyer, Stephanie (2007): Twilight. Volume I. London (Atom).
ISBN: 978-1904233657.
Rice, Anne (1989): The Queen of the Damned. New York (Ballantine Books).
ISBN: 978-0345351524.
Stoker, Bram (2011): Dracula. Oxford (University Press World’s Classics).
ISBN: 978-0199564095.
Additional material will be provided at the beginning of the semester.
Be prepared to read a lot!
Literatur:
Literature (additional, available from library)
Anonymous /Gilbert, William / Cholmondeley, Mary
Dracula`s Precursors: The Mysterious Stranger & Other Stories. Hastings (Reality Street Editions).
Beresford, Matthew: From Demons to Dracula. The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth. (Reaktion Books).
Butler, Erik: Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture). (Boydell & Brewer Inc).
Gelder, Ken: Popular fiction. The logics and practices of a literary field. London, New York (Routledge).
Sims, Michael (ed.): Dracula`s Guest. A Connoisseur`s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories. (Frank R Walker Co).
Skal, David J./ Auerbach, Nina (ed.): Dracula. Authoritative Text, Contexts, Reviews and Reactions, Dramatic and Film Variations, Criticism. New York, London (Norton Critical Editions).
Voraussetzungen:
Requirements
Regular attendance and active participation, presentation of a text of secondary literature within a work group, participation in 1-2 additional movie screenings, written term paper (Hausarbeit).
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