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Einrichtungen >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft >>
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From Romantic Literature to Climate Change Fiction: Two Centuries of English Nature Writing- Dozent/in
- Dr. Susan Brähler
- Angaben
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Do 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft:
Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b):
Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Übung:
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): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- This seminar will trace the evolution of English nature writing from Romantic poetry and prose to contemporary eco-poetry and climate change literature. During our first sessions, students will receive an introduction to Ecocriticism or ‘green studies’, the study of the ‘relationship between literature and the physical environment’ (Cheryll Glotfelty), which have emerged in the UK as late as the early 1990s. We will discuss questions such as: what is the relationship between culture and nature? Does nature really exist or is it socially/linguistically constructed? Once students have been provided with a firm theoretical basis, we will turn to ecocritical (and ecofeminist) readings of works by William and Dorothy Wordsworth, John Clare, Samuel T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Emily Bronte and Thomas Hardy. 20th- and 21st-century writers will include Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, Graham Swift (Waterland 1983) and Jeanette Winterson (The Stone Gods 2007). Discussions will revolve around the ‘invention’ of the English countryside, around aesthetic theories of the picturesque, the Romantic lonely wanderer (what if he happens to be a woman?), the Victorian angel in the house (can there be something like an ‘angel in the garden’?), posthumanist ideas (in which the ‘human’ is conceived as just one life form among many and not an autonomous and conscious human subject), etc.
Students will receive weekly reading assignments of both literary texts (poems, novel excerpts, short stories) as well as theoretical ones (most of them taken from The Green Studies Reader [2000], edited by Laurence Coupe). In addition, students will be asked to buy and read Swift’s novel Waterland as well as Winterson’s post-apocalyptic novel The Stone Gods.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory Reading:
- weekly reading assignments (cf. VC)
- Graham Swift, Waterland (ISBN 978-1447275503)
- Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods (ISBN 978-0141032603)
Recommended Literature:
- Laurence Coupe, ed. The Green Studies Reader (ISBN 978-0415204071)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
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