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Power, Judgement & Controversy: The Minefield separating a Legendary Heroine from her Holy Grail- Dozent/in
- Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, M.A.
- Angaben
- Seminar/Proseminar/Übung
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Mo 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft /
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / 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 / Aufbaumodul Kultur
wissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Übung
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in literary studies in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA Berufliche Bildung
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.10.2018 (10:00) - 10.01.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- For millennia, men have been the protagonists of their own heroic
stories. Stories written by men, mainly for men. Women had no place
in an epic or heroic tale, at least not one that could put them in equal
terms with their male counterparts. They were reduced to “damsels in
distress”, supernatural guides, the hero’s reward, or in some cases
the villain.
In his studies of myths, Joseph Campbell concluded that: “In the
whole mythological tradition the woman is there. All she has to do is
realise that she’s the place that people are trying to get to”. Although
this may be true regarding that specific niche, literary history has
shown women move forward to centre stage. Since circa late Romanticism
to Postmodern Literature and our present day, female characters
have been given a path and a voice, but remained limited by the
constraints of their respective times, or the nightmares of a dystopian
future.
This course aims to analyse the depiction of women in dystopian literature
and fantasy and will pay special attention to the following aspects
of each work: (gendered) language and women’s orality; identity
in contrast with “purpose”; sex, sexuality and the body; sister-,
mother-, and womanhood; and power.
Furthermore, we will use two (or more) stages of Campbell’s model
(The Hero with a Thousand Faces), namely the Call for Adventure
and the Road of Trials in order to examine what restrain(s)(ed)
women from heroism and the obstacles set throughout their journeys.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- To read prior to beginning of semester:
Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale.
Christina Dalcher. Vox.
Marge Piercy. Woman on the Edge of Time.
To read during the semester:
Naomi Alderman. The Power.
J.R.R Tolkien. Lord of the Rings (Éowyn).
More material to be added in class
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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