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Einrichtungen >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft >>
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The Enlightenment and Its Discontents- Dozent/in
- Simon Edwards
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Einzeltermin am 1.7.2016 16:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17; Einzeltermin am 2.7.2016 10:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11; Einzeltermin am 3.7.2016 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11
- 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:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
In order to gain 8 ECTS for this seminar, Simon Edward's course needs to be combined with either George Ellenbogen's course Personal Writing / Self Revelation in SoSe 2016 or with Christoph Houswitschka's course Shakespeare on Film in WS 2016/17 (this option is for MA students only; the course will take place at Burg Feuerstein on a weekend in November). The seminar paper needs to be written in Simon Edwards's seminar.
@BA/LA-students: If you have any questions, please contact Chiara Manghi.
@MA-Students: If you have any questions, please contact Kerstin-Anja Münderlein.
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 04th of March 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00); de-registration: until 24th of June 2016 (10:00)
guest auditors: please contact chiara.manghi@uni-bamberg.de
- Inhalt
- From the late 17c the development and application of scientific knowledge throughout Europe, seemed to offer the possibility of continuous improvement in the human condition, the steady advance of civilization and a radical challenge to the power of organised religion. These putatively enlightened principles and values came to dominate our political culture and many of our ordinary expectations of individual and social life.
Even at their peak in the 18c they did not of course go unchallenged particularly in the literary imagination. Nor did the material evidence of human and improvement progress stack up in the following years, not least against the persistent presence of violence, slavery, superstition, and exploitation. As the great German critic Walter Benjamin noted in 1940: There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism .
Unsurprisingly 20/21c literature and popular culture are both rich in dystopian visions of the abundant wealth and comfort that appear to characterise the so-called advanced economies. This short course, however, is intended to explore the abiding interest and power of some of the earliest dystopian texts in the British literary tradition which still inform and indeed haunt our contemporary perspectives.
We start with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), which remains the best known and most widely read text of the English 18c. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1819) survives in countless adaptations in film and popular myth but always rewards by examining its original form. Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) has proved the source of possibly more film, TV, theatrical, cartoon adaptations and versions than any other work of prose fiction. Finally, H G Wells's The Time Machine (1895 ) announces the formal emergence of a new literary genre, science fiction, which will proliferate in the following centuries.
NB. Students intending to buy a copy of Gulliver's Travels should make sure they have an edition of the complete original text. Later editions, a measure of the work's popularity, very often only include the first two sections, and are often highly bowdlerised .
Depending on numbers, students will be expected to make short presentations on each of the texts, either individually or as part of a group. Please organise this in the weeks prior to the seminar, to ensure that all texts are covered on the three days of the course.
Students are expected to read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal as well as Gulliver's Travels.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Students are expected to read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal as well as Gulliver's Travels.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
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