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PS Ian McEwan- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Nora Pleßke
- Angaben
- Proseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Di 12:00 - 14:00, U11/00.25
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2023, 10:00 – 31.10.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- Ian McEwan, born in 1948, is considered one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. He has been nominated for Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize multiple times and won the award in 1998 for his novel Amsterdam. McEwan’s latest publication, the rather traditional sociopolitical epic Lessons (2022), is his 18th novel to date. His writer’s career started with two short-story collections, First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets (1978). McEwan’s prose during this first phase, including The Cement Garden (1978) or The Comfort of Strangers (1981), is characterised by its macabre topics, black comedy, and the gothic mode. In the second phase, his texts become increasingly political. With The Child in Time (1987), McEwan already employs the genre of the state-of-the-nation novel in his exploration of the interrelations between public and private life in the bleak realities of Thatcherite Britain. Set during WW2, McEwan’s acclaimed postmodern novel Atonement (2001) is exemplary for McEwan’s use of unreliable or unnatural narrators. The two Brexit stories, Nutshell (2016) and The Cockroach (2019), for example, are narrated from the perspective of a foetus and a bug turned into the prime minister. While these texts hark back on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, his bestseller Saturday (2005), depicting urban life in the aftermath of 9/11, is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s modernist city novel Mrs Dalloway. McEwan’s texts are also significant meta-narratives on understanding the mind: They represent consciousness and the complexities of mental processing. Other narratives that show his interest in science are Solar (2010) concerning climate change or Machines Like Me (2019) with view on artificial intelligence. Moreover, his fiction has variously been adapted to film and McEwan has produced several screenplays. In this seminar, we will discuss Ian McEwan’s oeuvre which treats issues that are central to our times and contemporary literature.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Selected Novels:
The Cement Garden (1978)
The Child in Time (1987)
Atonement (2001)
Saturday (2005)
Nutshell (2016)
Machines Like Me (2019)
Secondary Literature:
Childs, Peter, ed. The Fiction of Ian McEwan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz. Family and Relationships in Ian McEwan's Fiction: Between Fantasy and Desire. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Groes, Sebastian, ed. Ian McEwan. Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Continuum, 2013.
Head, Dominic. Ian McEwan. Manchester UP, 2007.
Malcolm, David. Understanding Ian McEwan. U of South Carolina P, 2002.
Möller, Swantje. Coming to Terms with Crisis: Disorientation and Reorientation in the Novels of Ian McEwan. Winter, 2011
Nicklas, Pascal, ed. Ian McEwan: Art and Politics. Winter, 2009.
Roberts, Ryan, ed. Conversations with Ian McEwan. UP of Mississippi, 2010.
Wells, Lynn. Ian McEwan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- PS Ian McEwan
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2023, 10:00 – 31.10.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Contents
- Ian McEwan, born in 1948, is considered one of Britain’s greatest post-war writers. He has been nominated for Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize multiple times and won the award in 1998 for his novel Amsterdam. McEwan’s latest publication, the rather traditional sociopolitical epic Lessons (2022), is his 18th novel to date. His writer’s career started with two short-story collections, First Love, Last Rites (1975) and In Between the Sheets (1978). McEwan’s prose during this first phase, including The Cement Garden (1978) or The Comfort of Strangers (1981), is characterised by its macabre topics, black comedy, and the gothic mode. In the second phase, his texts become increasingly political. With The Child in Time (1987), McEwan already employs the genre of the state-of-the-nation novel in his exploration of the interrelations between public and private life in the bleak realities of Thatcherite Britain. Set during WW2, McEwan’s acclaimed postmodern novel Atonement (2001) is exemplary for McEwan’s use of unreliable or unnatural narrators. The two Brexit stories, Nutshell (2016) and The Cockroach (2019), for example, are narrated from the perspective of a foetus and a bug turned into the prime minister. While these texts hark back on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, his bestseller Saturday (2005), depicting urban life in the aftermath of 9/11, is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s modernist city novel Mrs Dalloway. McEwan’s texts are also significant meta-narratives on understanding the mind: They represent consciousness and the complexities of mental processing. Other narratives that show his interest in science are Solar (2010) concerning climate change or Machines Like Me (2019) with view on artificial intelligence. Moreover, his fiction has variously been adapted to film and McEwan has produced several screenplays. In this seminar, we will discuss Ian McEwan’s oeuvre which treats issues that are central to our times and contemporary literature.
- Literature
- Selected Novels:
The Cement Garden (1978)
The Child in Time (1987)
Atonement (2001)
Saturday (2005)
Nutshell (2016)
Machines Like Me (2019)
Secondary Literature:
Childs, Peter, ed. The Fiction of Ian McEwan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Dobrogoszcz, Tomasz. Family and Relationships in Ian McEwan's Fiction: Between Fantasy and Desire. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Groes, Sebastian, ed. Ian McEwan. Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Continuum, 2013.
Head, Dominic. Ian McEwan. Manchester UP, 2007.
Malcolm, David. Understanding Ian McEwan. U of South Carolina P, 2002.
Möller, Swantje. Coming to Terms with Crisis: Disorientation and Reorientation in the Novels of Ian McEwan. Winter, 2011
Nicklas, Pascal, ed. Ian McEwan: Art and Politics. Winter, 2009.
Roberts, Ryan, ed. Conversations with Ian McEwan. UP of Mississippi, 2010.
Wells, Lynn. Ian McEwan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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