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Einrichtungen >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft >>
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"The best is yet to be": Representations of Old Age and Ageing in Recent Fiction- Dozent/in
- Dr. Susan Brähler
- Angaben
- Proseminar/Übung
2 SWS
Studium Generale
Zeit und Ort: Mi 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18; Einzeltermin am 23.11.2017, Einzeltermin am 11.1.2018 16:00 - 18:00, U5/02.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul 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
Reading tutorial
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 10.08.2017 (10:00) - 10.01.2018 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- According to Ageing Studies, a very young interdisciplinary field of research, old age and ageing are not simply a fixed biological or chronological process but a complex cultural and social phenomenon (Jansohn). Age is a fluid identity marker, i. e. the distinction between young and old cannot for very long be successfully thought of as a binary opposition with youth being the valued term and old age being stigmatised. One s chronological age seems to lose relevance when older people make claims for the continuity of an ageless self across their life span. (Kriebernegg/Maierhofer)
In this seminar on fictional representations of old age and ageing, we will discuss various aspects of old age: ageing and solitude vs. community in old age, ageing and agency, the ageing body, female ageing, sexuality, generation, memory and memory loss etc. Perhaps the most striking thing about recent fiction is its ability to bring aging characters to the center of awareness, away from the periphery. (Fallis) We will thus focus on some of the most prominent texts featuring elderly protagonists which have been written in recent decades and which contribute to our understanding of old age in very different ways: what is it like to be institutionalised because of bodily frailty when one s mental capacities have not declined? How can a first-person narrator suffering from Alzheimer s disease relate a coherent plot? How to read a dystopia in which the young and healthy are used as a mere stock for healthy organs which are then transplanted into the old and diseased? Where lies the (dark) comedy of five elderly people moving in together?
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory Reading:
Kingsley Amis, Ending Up (1974) [978-0141194233]
Alice Munro, Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd (1982)
May Sarton, As We Are Now (1992) [978-0704339217]
J. M. Coetzee, Slow Man (2005) [978-0099490623] and As a Woman Grows Older (2004)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005) [978-0571224142]
Emma Healey, Elizabeth Is Missing (2014) [978-0241968185]
Film: Harold and Maud (dir. Hal Ashby; 1971)
Please buy only those editions indicated above (cf. ISBN numbers) so we can all refer to the same page numbers in class!
The short stories will be made available on the VC.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
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