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George Orwell and Popular Culture- Dozent/in
- Dr. Tom Nolan
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, Teilnehmerbegrenzung 25 Studierende; An-/Abmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung über FlexNow: 04.02.2013 (08:00 Uhr) bis 19.04.2013 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 24.06.2013 (10:00 Uhr) bis 14.07.2013 (23:59); Abgabe der schriftlichen Hausarbeiten spätestens 1. September 2013 (Wenn der Lehrstuhl nicht besetzt ist, bitte sämtliche Postsendungen [eindeutig adressiert] in der Pforte, Kapuzinerstr. 16, abgeben oder dort in den Briefkasten einwerfen. Danke.)
Zeit und Ort: Mo 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Prerequisites
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
Modulzugehörigkeit bzw. Zugehörigkeit zu Studiengängen/Part of modules resp. courses of study
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbau-, Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students (6 ECTS)
This seminar is exclusively intended for those students looking to complete a ‘Seminararbeit’ and for whom an ‘Aufbaumodul’ is a requirement. It does not count as a ‘Vertiefungsmodul’ or any other kind of Module – on the grounds, above all, that fresher students often fail to achieve the degree of participation which seminars demand.
Lehrformen/Taught by:
Seminars in English
Voraussetzungen für Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe/Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
Term paper according to the style-sheet, regular attendance, active participation
Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/seminararbeiten/
- Inhalt
- As the son of an Imperial civil servant who was educated at various private schools before winning a scholarship to Eton, George Orwell grew up feeling at home in the upper and upper-middle echelons of English society. However, on leaving school in 1922 he did not go on to university, nor attempt to begin a professional career at home, but rather chose to work as a policeman in Burma, where he came to ‘know imperialism from the inside’ – and to detest it. He re-established himself in England in 1927, but with his sensibilities sharpened by his Burmese experiences, found it impossible to take his native land for granted, and became passionately interested in and concerned for the broad mass of English people – the working class and the destitute. Between prolonged periods as a down-and-out, a dish-washer and a hop-picker, he managed to make a meagre living from journalism and various poorly paid jobs.
This unusually mixed background made Orwell uniquely qualified to appreciate English popular culture, to which he brought an insider’s appreciation and an outsider’s sensitivity. This is true if we consider ‘popular’ culture to be a synonym for ‘low-brow’ culture, for Orwell remained true to the tastes of his middle-class home and school environment. He relished authors such as E. W. Hornung, Conan Doyle etc., and the pleasures to be derived on a Sunday afternoon from newspaper accounts of domestic murders. But it is also true if we consider ‘popular’ to refer to the ‘populace’, the lower classes. Orwell went out of his way to acclimatize to their way of thinking and feeling. He wanted inside knowledge of the food they ate, the pubs they frequented, the books and magazines they read. But his political education in Burma and the years since had opened his eyes to the ideological implications of the most ordinary-seeming aspects of both low-brow and proletarian experience. Irrespective of which aspect of ‘popular’ we concentrate on, we find that Orwell has much to say about it, sometimes in warm appreciation, sometimes in disapproval, always in a spirit of enquiry and discovery.
Academic Outcomes and Skills
• An overview of the specific topic in its relationship to the discipline as a whole; insight into the relevant critical debates.
• The ability to place individual works in a cultural context, and to appraise critically the recommended research methods.
• An improved competence in multi-cultural thinking.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Book to buy
George Orwell, Essays. Ed Bernhard Crick (London: Penguin Books, 1994).
Available at: www.amazon.co.uk
Other texts will be made available during the course.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Britische Kultur
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