Italienisch: Lingua italiana C1

Dozent/in:

Chiara Manghi

Angaben:

Sprachpraktische Ausbildung, 4 SWS

Termine:

Mo, Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.17

Letters, Letters, Letters: Epistolary and Semi-Epistolary Novels

Dozent/in:

Chiara Manghi

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U2/00.26
Einzeltermin am 2.6.2016, 16:00 - 18:00, U2/00.26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische 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

1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)

all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in

• LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik

• MA English and American Studies

• Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

"Letters, letters, letters. Not for me" writes Blanche Glover in A.S. Byatt s neo-Victorian novel Possession. The whole plot revolves around the love letters between two fictional Victorian writers and the investigation that two scholars undertake after finding the draft of the first letter. In this class, apart from thoroughly analyzing Possession, we will become familiar with the Victorian letters that inspired this epistolary love story, those between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (the letters are available in their digitized form at http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm/portal/collection/ab-letters, provided by a collaboration of Baylor University and Wellesley College).

We will also read some classic examples of the epistolary novel in excerpts from Samuel Richardson s Clarissa and Pamela and Henry Fielding s Shamela, a satirical answer to Pamela. Then we will travel through time and space with David Mitchell s Cloud Atlas, again an example of a novel that is not purely epistolary, but interweaves several narratives in several different forms. In order to gain some insight in the American epistolary novel, we will read Alice Walker s The Color Purple, featuring mainly unanswered letters to God.

Moreover, we will look at some excerpts from Viktor Shklovsky s Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, where we will see what happens when a theorist who would like to write love letters is forbidden to do so.

Empfohlene Literatur:

A.S. Byatt, Possession (read Possession by the second session of our class)
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
Excerpts from further novels and a selection of non-fictional letters will be made available during the semester.