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Einrichtungen >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft >>
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The Interwar Period in British Literature- Dozent/in
- Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
Rein Online
2 SWS
Studium Generale
Zeit: Di 18:00 - 20:00
- 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)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- The interwar period denotes the time between the end of the Great War (1914-1918) and the beginning of the Second World War (1939-1945). During this time, (not only) Europe struggled with the effects of the war on civil society, international diplomacy, and national and individual fates. With national traumas and the loss of the “lost Generation”, a term coined by Gertrude Stein, on the one hand and the fundamental social changes in British class structures and gender roles on the other hand, the interwar period was one of the most suspenseful and varied times in modern history. From the “Roaring Twenties” and their celebration of the loss of old boundaries to the Great Depression and the rise of Fascism on the Continent in the thirties, the period provides a constant up and down and threw the people from one World War into the next.
From the perspective of literary studies, the interwar period proved to be highly fruitful. Besides the continuation of literary modernism, which had started around the beginning of the century and would deeply affect all forms of literature – narrative, poetry, and drama –, the interwar period boasts of an enormous diversification of genres and literary styles. This course aims at showcasing this literary diversity in all three Aristotelian genres (narrative, poetry, and drama) by exemplarily examining texts from such different perspectives as T.S. Eliot’s and Edith Sitwell’s modern poetry, Noel Coward’s comedies, Virginia Woolf’s and Katherine Mansfield’s short fiction, Agatha Christie’s Golden Age crime novels, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian fiction, or J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy. The focus of this course will be on narrative texts.
This course will begin by giving an overview of the interwar years before it moves into non-fiction and theoretical texts, poetry, drama and narrative (with a focus on the latter). Over the course of the semester, we will read and discuss the obligatory reading (see below) alongside theoretical texts, which will be made available on the VC. As this course will be discussion-intensive, participants are kindly asked to be visible on MS Teams even when not speaking to create a familiar and inviting atmosphere, which allows for higher-quality discussions.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory reading throughout the semester:
Poetry:
T.S. Eliot. “The Waste Land.” 1922.
Poems by Edith Sitwell, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas and W.H. Auden
All poems will be made available on the VC
Drama:
Noel Coward. Hay Fever. 1924.
Narrative:
Katherine Mansfield. “The Garden-Party.” 1922. (short story; available via Project Gutenberg Australia and on the VC)
Virginia Woolf. “The Shooting Party.” 1938. (short story; available via Project Gutenberg Australia and on the VC)
William Somerset Maugham. The Painted Veil. 1925. (novel)
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. 1932. (novel)
J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. 1937. (novel)
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. 1939. (novel)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- The Interwar Period in British 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)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies: Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 06.09.2021, 10:00 - 31.10.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Contents
- The interwar period denotes the time between the end of the Great War (1914-1918) and the beginning of the Second World War (1939-1945). During this time, (not only) Europe struggled with the effects of the war on civil society, international diplomacy, and national and individual fates. With national traumas and the loss of the “lost Generation”, a term coined by Gertrude Stein, on the one hand and the fundamental social changes in British class structures and gender roles on the other hand, the interwar period was one of the most suspenseful and varied times in modern history. From the “Roaring Twenties” and their celebration of the loss of old boundaries to the Great Depression and the rise of Fascism on the Continent in the thirties, the period provides a constant up and down and threw the people from one World War into the next.
From the perspective of literary studies, the interwar period proved to be highly fruitful. Besides the continuation of literary modernism, which had started around the beginning of the century and would deeply affect all forms of literature – narrative, poetry, and drama –, the interwar period boasts of an enormous diversification of genres and literary styles. This course aims at showcasing this literary diversity in all three Aristotelian genres (narrative, poetry, and drama) by exemplarily examining texts from such different perspectives as T.S. Eliot’s and Edith Sitwell’s modern poetry, Noel Coward’s comedies, Virginia Woolf’s and Katherine Mansfield’s short fiction, Agatha Christie’s Golden Age crime novels, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian fiction, or J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy. The focus of this course will be on narrative texts.
This course will begin by giving an overview of the interwar years before it moves into non-fiction and theoretical texts, poetry, drama and narrative (with a focus on the latter). Over the course of the semester, we will read and discuss the obligatory reading (see below) alongside theoretical texts, which will be made available on the VC. As this course will be discussion-intensive, participants are kindly asked to be visible on MS Teams even when not speaking to create a familiar and inviting atmosphere, which allows for higher-quality discussions.
- Literature
- Obligatory reading throughout the semester:
Poetry:
T.S. Eliot. “The Waste Land.” 1922.
Poems by Edith Sitwell, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas and W.H. Auden
All poems will be made available on the VC
Drama:
Noel Coward. Hay Fever. 1924.
Narrative:
Katherine Mansfield. “The Garden-Party.” 1922. (short story; available via Project Gutenberg Australia and on the VC)
Virginia Woolf. “The Shooting Party.” 1938. (short story; available via Project Gutenberg Australia and on the VC)
William Somerset Maugham. The Painted Veil. 1925. (novel)
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. 1932. (novel)
J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit. 1937. (novel)
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. 1939. (novel)
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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