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Literary Dorset- Dozent/in
- Chiara Manghi, M.A.
- Angaben
- Übung
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Do 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11; Einzeltermin am 7.7.2017 14:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
ab 4.5.2017
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
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
- Please note: This course only starts in week 2
In this class we will read texts which explore very specific locations in Dorset in different times and contexts, with unforgettable female characters that go from Victorian - but at the same time very contemporary- heroine Sarah Woodruff, John Fowles' infamous French lieutenant's woman, to Elise Landau, the protagonist of The Novel in the Viola, who, in order to escape from persecution in Vienna during WWII becomes a parlour maid in Dorset, forced to leave behind her family and a completely different life.
John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman is one of the first novels, or maybe even the precursor of the very popular literary phenomenon known as Neo-Victorianism (which includes texts and various forms of art where the Victorian era is seen through the eyes of contemporary authors) as well as a prime example for postmodern literature and historiographic metafiction. The town of Lyme Regis and the Cobb of the Nineteenth Century are crucial to the plot of the novel and the act of walking freely around town is one of the actions that represent Sarah Woodruff s transgression.
Mary Anning, the first woman paleontologist (and the one who sells seashells on the seashore ), whose life story is told in Tracy Chevalier s Remarkable Creatures, also lived in Lyme and found fossils along the Jurassic Coast that have changed history and made it possible for Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell to develop and prove their theories of evolution.
Natasha Solomons' The Novel in the Viola (The House at Tyneford in the American edition) is set in Tyneford, based on the existing ghost town of Tyneham, a village which was requisitioned by the British army during the Second World War and never given back to its inhabitants.
Dorset's landscape, unique atmosphere and inhabitants constitute the common denominator for novels and authors which are otherwise profoundly different from each other.
Trip to Dorset 04.09.2017-10.09.2017
The department of English Literature is planning a trip to Dorset in September.
We will explore the locations of John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman (we will stay in Lyme Regis), Tracy Chevalier s Remarkable Creatures (the story of Mary Anning, the 19th Century paleontologist who found very significative fossils along the Jurassic Coast) and Natasha Solomons The Novel in the Viola (we will visit the ghost town of Tyneham) as well as several places of Thomas Hardy s Wessex.
A meeting with all details (open to everyone who is interested) will be held May 4th at 8 pm, room tba. Registration for the trip will be until 6th May.
If you are interested and you already plan to come with us to Dorset please write an email to: chiara.manghi(at)uni-bamberg.de
- Empfohlene Literatur
- John Fowles The French Lieutenant s Woman
Tracy Chevalier Remarkable Creatures
Natasha Solomons The Novel in the Viola
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 4
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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