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Lit.wiss. Hauptseminar : American Historiographic Metafiction: Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Zeit und Ort: Mo 10:15 - 11:45, U9/111
ab 22.10.2007
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Magister, Diplom und Lehramt: Zwischenprüfung bzw. Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
BA: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
Students interested in the course are kindly asked to register before October 13, 2007 by e-mail (sylvia.mayer@split.uni-bamberg.de)
- Inhalt
- Since the 1960s American literature has been characterized by the powerful re-emergence of the historical novel – a re-emergence with a difference if we compare novels such as Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (1960), E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime (1974), and Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) with those 19th century texts that defined the genre. While the classic historical novel assumed that ‘history’ could be directly accessed and ‘mirrored’ in language, the postmodern historical novel – which Linda Hutcheon categorized as a type of “historiographic metafiction” – has put emphasis on the fact that knowledge of the past is always mediated by cultural discourses and language conventions, that the representation of history is always a cultural and linguistic construction.
In this seminar we will start out with a discussion of seminal theoretical texts that help us to understand the concept of “historiographic metafiction”. After that we will study the novels by Vonnegut, Doctorow and Morrison as representatives of the genre. While in Slaughterhouse Five the bombing of Dresden is the key historical reference point, Ragtime focuses on American history in the decade before World War I. Beloved, finally, addresses the institution of slavery in the post- and pre-Civil War periods. We will analyze the metafictional quality of the texts, i.e. the way they critically investigate concepts of ‘history’, ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’, and we will identify and assess the use of narrative techniques such as the self-conscious narrator, intertextuality and parody.
A 'Schein' requires regular attendance and participation, a presentation in class and a written paper of 10-12 pages (in English!) to be handed in by March 7, 2008.
Participants of the seminar are expected to buy the editions of the texts given below and to have read all novels by the beginning of the semester.
Bitte beachten Sie, dass die erste Sitzung am 22.10.2007 stattfindet.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime. Penguin Modern Classics. London: Penguin, 2006.
[ISBN-10: 0141188170; ISBN-13: 978-0141188171]
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. London: Vintage. 1997.
[ISBN-10: 0099760118; ISBN-13: 978-0099760115]
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse Five Or the Children’s Crusade. A Duty Dance with Death. London: Vintage, 2000.
[ISBN-10: 0099800209; ISBN-13: 978-0099800200]
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20
- Institution: Professur für Anglistik und Amerikanistik mit Schwerpunkt Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
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