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From World War II to Brexit: The Continent in Recent British Literature (The Continent in Recent British Literature)- Dozent/in
- Dr. Susan Brähler
- Angaben
- Proseminar/Übung
2 SWS
Studium Generale
Zeit und Ort: Mi 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- The year 2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the agreement that effectively gave birth to what became the European Union. In her 2002 essay “The Writer at Home in Europe”, award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel was still confident that young British citizens “are pro-European, without having to think about it. The European Community is one of the givens of their world.” In a more recent Spiegel interview, however, she has come to deplore Britain’s “retreat into insularity” (2014). On 23 June 2016, the day of the EU membership referendum, she and other British artists and intellectuals who had supported the pro-EU campaign, had to face up to the fact that the UK would, after 44 years of membership, withdraw from the European Union.
Before this background, this class sets out to investigate the relationship between the UK and the Continent as it has been imagined in recent British literature. We will deal with definitions of Europe as a historical, geographical, political as well as cultural entity, with conceptions of European identity as well as national identities (Englishness, Britishness), British exceptionalism and the link between space and identity. After these preliminaries, we will turn to novels and films which explore what it meant to be English/British at the end of WW II (The English Patient) as well as in Cold-War-Europe (The Innocent). We will trace the “clichéification of Europe” (Annan) in Tim Parks’s Europa and find out what it means to be black and British and European in Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists. The section “Europe goes UK” investigates predominantly Eastern European immigrants’ perspectives on British society (The Road Home; Eastern Promises; Once). And last but not least, students will explore how British comedians and satirists have responded to the Brexit campaign and referendum.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (1992): Bloomsbury 2004.
Ian McEwan, The Innocent (1990): Vintage 1998.
Tim Parks, Europa (1998): Vintage 1998.
Bernardine Evaristo, Soul Tourists (2005): Penguin 2005.
Rose Tremain, The Road Home (2007): Vintage 2008.
Films: Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, 2007); Once (Carney, 2006)
Students should have read at least The English Patient and The Innocent by the beginning of the semester. Please make sure you buy the editions listed above so we all refer to the same page numbers! The two DVDs can be borrowed from my office.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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