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HS Nostalgia in Modern and Postmodern English Literature- Dozent/in
- Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben
- Seminar/Oberseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Gender und Diversität, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Di 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22; Einzeltermin am 16.1.2024 18:00 - 20:00, KR12/02.05
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
Module Master's Thesis (Literature): Oberseminar (2 ECTS)
MA Religionen Verstehen:
Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache MA RelLit 3a: Seminar (5 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2023, 10:00 - 31.10.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
- Inhalt
- People are fascinated by the past and often tend to glorify it; we long for simpler times, home, stability, purpose, our youth, and much more and ascribe an idealised picture of these things to “the past”. The term “nostalgia” encompasses this yearning for the past. Specifically, “Nostalgia (from nostos return home, and algia longing) is a longing for a home that no longer exists or has never existed. Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy” (Boym, The Future of Nostalgia, ch. 1). Coined in 1688 by Swiss doctor Johannes Hofer, the term initially denoted a sickness – homesickness, or the burning and even sickening desire to return home – experiences by Swiss soldiers abroad; later, it lost its dangerous connotation and has now come to describe a melancholic feeling, or yearning, for an idealised past.
This course looks at different angles of nostalgia, e.g. how nostalgia has been used ideologically in the construction of “Merry England”, how returning home and longing for home can be very different, how longing for “the past” – with its facets of “a simpler past”, “an ideal past”, and “a personal past” – has been suffused with ideological and even propagandistic discourse, how history has been renegotiated to fit narratives of national and personal identity, and how nostalgia has been debunked in literature. We will focus on literature from the 20th century (see reading list below). Besides the obligatory reading below, all students will be expected to read one more novel (more info on that in class).
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory Reading:
Rebecca West. The Return of the Soldier. 1918.
George Orwell. Coming Up for Air. 1939.
Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. 1945.
Dodie Smith. I Capture the Castle. 1948.
Georgette Heyer. Frederica. 1965.
Suggested Reading:
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. 1908.
Ford Madox Ford. The Good Soldier. 1915.
Elizabeth von Arnim. The Enchanted April. 1922.
Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway. 1925.
L.P. Harley, The Go-Between. 1953.
Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day. 1989.
Students will be allocated one of these in the beginning of class to base their practice conference paper on.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- HS Nostalgia in Modern and Postmodern English Literature
- Credits: 8
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
Module Master's Thesis (Literature): Oberseminar (2 ECTS)
MA Religionen Verstehen:
Schlüsseltexte in einer wissenschaftlichen Fremdsprache MA RelLit 3a: Seminar (5 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2023, 10:00 - 31.10.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
- Contents
- People are fascinated by the past and often tend to glorify it; we long for simpler times, home, stability, purpose, our youth, and much more and ascribe an idealised picture of these things to “the past”. The term “nostalgia” encompasses this yearning for the past. Specifically, “Nostalgia (from nostos return home, and algia longing) is a longing for a home that no longer exists or has never existed. Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romance with one's own fantasy” (Boym, The Future of Nostalgia, ch. 1). Coined in 1688 by Swiss doctor Johannes Hofer, the term initially denoted a sickness – homesickness, or the burning and even sickening desire to return home – experiences by Swiss soldiers abroad; later, it lost its dangerous connotation and has now come to describe a melancholic feeling, or yearning, for an idealised past.
This course looks at different angles of nostalgia, e.g. how nostalgia has been used ideologically in the construction of “Merry England”, how returning home and longing for home can be very different, how longing for “the past” – with its facets of “a simpler past”, “an ideal past”, and “a personal past” – has been suffused with ideological and even propagandistic discourse, how history has been renegotiated to fit narratives of national and personal identity, and how nostalgia has been debunked in literature. We will focus on literature from the 20th century (see reading list below). Besides the obligatory reading below, all students will be expected to read one more novel (more info on that in class).
- Literature
- Obligatory Reading:
Rebecca West. The Return of the Soldier. 1918.
George Orwell. Coming Up for Air. 1939.
Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited. 1945.
Dodie Smith. I Capture the Castle. 1948.
Georgette Heyer. Frederica. 1965.
Suggested Reading:
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. 1908.
Ford Madox Ford. The Good Soldier. 1915.
Elizabeth von Arnim. The Enchanted April. 1922.
Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway. 1925.
L.P. Harley, The Go-Between. 1953.
Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day. 1989.
Students will be allocated one of these in the beginning of class to base their practice conference paper on.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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