Lehrende: Dr. phil. Nicola Glaubitz
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Orga-Einheit: FB02 / Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (Institut)
Anzeige im Stundenplan: Literary Genres
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
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Lehrinhalte: Das Seminar vermittelt Kenntnisse in der Gattungstheorie und führt an ausgewählten Beispieltexten in die vertiefende Beschreibung und Analyse einer ausgewählten Gattung (Lyrik, Drama, erzählende Prosa) ein. Studierende erhalten einen Einblick in die verschiedenen literarischen Genres und lernen diese anhand eigener Analysen und Interpretationsübungen kennen.
Literatur: Students need to obtain the anthology Victorian Poetry (ed. Duncan Wu, Valentine Cunningham. Blackwell Essential Literature. London: Blackwell, 2002) for course work. Additional material will be provided in a PDF class pack.
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung: Sigmund Freud observed in 1916 that humankind had suffered three major mortifications: Kopernikus’ discovery that earth is not the centre of the universe, Darwin’s idea that man is not distinct from the animal kingdom, and his own discovery that ‘the ego is no longer master of its own house’, delegating its position to the unconscious. The feeling of mortification, loss of control and disorientation in a scientifically explicable world is already typical for 19th century poets who register the cultural impact of the empirical sciences, evolution theory, and mass society in the Victorian era. The seminar will place poetry by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Gerard Manley Hopkins in the cultural and historical background of 19th century modernization but it will also inquire into the poetological choices that are characteristic for the era.
