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Einrichtungen >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft >>
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The Dead Walking - Zombie Fiction Reloaded- Dozent/in
- Lisa Schädlich, B.A.
- Angaben
- Proseminar/Übung
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Mo 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul 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
MA WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
ERASMUS or visiting students: Seminar: max. 6 ECTS
Übung
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
BSc. BWL
MA WiPäd
ERASMUS and visiting students: Please contact lecturer if you wish to attend the class.
2. (De)Registration via FlexNow: 10.08.2017 (10:00) - 10.01.2018 (23:59)
guest auditors: Please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- Zombies are all around us. We can find them in TV productions, comic books, novels and of course movies. Needless to say, zombies are en vogue. Zombie fiction such as The Walking Dead, both comic books and TV series alike, or cult classics by George A. Romero focus on the human survivors battling against the ominous other. We experience the decomposition of human civilisation first hand, how the survivors battle against not only the undead but against a much more terrifying threat – other human survivors and are oftentimes faced with moral dilemma how we would react in such an extreme situation. After all, a villain is a hero in his or her own mind.
In recent years though, there has been a gradual shift from focusing on the human survivors and instead choosing zombies who narrate their own stories. In novels such as The Girl with all the Gifts (M.R. Carey, 2014) or The Passage (Justin Cronin, 2010), the zombie narrative is turned topsy turvy.
In this Seminar/Übung, we will examine the origins of zombie fiction and see how zombies have transformed in the last years.
We will have a look how The Walking Dead moves beyond a zombie narrative and how zombie movies such as Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2002) or Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies (2013) parody existing genre tropes.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- To read before the semester:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Frankenstein. 1818.
Justin Cronin. The Passage. 2010.
M. R. Carey. The Girl With All the Gifts. 2014.
Excerpts from other works such as Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead (2003-) or Max Brooks' World War Z (2006) will be available on the VC during the semester.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
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