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Reading Modernist Literature for Beginners / Literarische Moderne: Ein Anfängerkurs- Dozent/in
- Dr. Robert Craig
- Angaben
- Übung
2 SWS, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 24.07.2017 (08:00 Uhr) bis 20.10.2017 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 11.12.2017 (08:00 Uhr) bis 22.01.2018 (23.59 Uhr).
Zeit und Ort: jede 2. Woche Do 14:15 - 15:45, U5/01.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation:
A successfully completed module examination in a 'Basismodul' in British & American Cultural Studies.
This course is intended particularly for students in English and German studies. A course description in German can be found on the UnivIS pages of the Lehrstuhl für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft. We shall discuss the English-language works in English, and the German-language works in German.
Modulzuordnung/Module applicability:
Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik (ab Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2009): Ergänzungsmodul Theorien und Methoden (1 ECTS)
Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Basis- und Aufbaumodul (2 ECTS)
Bachelor Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul ohne Bachelorarbeit in Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Bachelor/Master Wirtschaftspädagogik: Basismodul/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
Lehramt Realschule: Zusatzmodul Britische Kultur (2 ECTS)
Lehramt Gymnasium: Freier Bereich, Wahlpflichtmodul Britische Kultur (2 ECTS)
M. Ed.: Zusatzmodul Britische Kultur (2 ECTS)
B.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Aufbaumodul Anglistik I (3 ECTS)
B.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Aufbaumodul Anglistik I (4 ECTS)
M.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Aufbaumodul Anglistik (3 ECTS)
M.A. Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien: Intensivierungsmodul Anglistik (3 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students (2 or 4 ECTS)
An-/Abmeldung/Registration/de-registration
über FlexNow/on FlexNow
Lehrformen/Taught
Englisch und Deutsch/in English and German
Prüfungsformen/Examined by
Please inform the course teacher in good time (no later than 4 weeks after the start of the semester) if you wish to be awarded a grade for this seminar. The grade will be determined by a test, a presentation, or a term paper. This depends on the module taken and/or the ECTS points to be awarded. If they wish this course to count towards their “Consolidation Module I Master-Studiengang”, students must pass an oral examination at the end of the semester.
- Inhalt
- Course Description
Human nature itself, Virginia Woolf wrote, underwent a fundamental change “on or about December 1910”. We’ll be exploring the problematic questions of human identity and human nature in literary modernism through the lens of four canonical works from the British, Austrian, and German traditions. Conrad’s monumental Heart of Darkness (1899), which sits on the threshold of the twentieth century and its most influential aesthetic movement, is on one level a scathing attack on European imperialism in Africa. But in the wake of Darwin, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, it also becomes a reflection on both man’s insignificance, and the tragic ‘aloneness’ of every human soul. Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1907) is one of the great early works of Austrian modernism, and another literary critique of the supposed ‘rationality’ of Western civilization, this time in the context of an Austrian military academy.
We then move forward to the era of ‘high modernism’ in Britain and Germany, with a comparative focus on representations of modern experience. We first turn to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927), a masterful literary exploration of altered senses of time, perception, and subjectivity itself. The course then concludes with a reading of Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929): the tale of an ex-con’s attempts to ‘go straight’ in late Weimar Berlin, but also one of the greatest literary explorations of the fragmented reality of modern city life. After devoting two hour-long sessions to discussing each work, we shall devote a session to an acclaimed film version.
By the end of the course, students should have begun to develop an appreciation of the different ways in which literary modernism, in both Britain and Germany, reflected and refracted problems of human meaning in a rapidly changing world.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Recommended reading
Primärliteratur/Primary texts:
Please buy the texts in the editions stated below, and start reading now! Please be sure to have read, and made notes on, Heart of Darkness before our first session on 19 October; and please read each book before the relevant sessions take place. The texts are listed here in the order in which we shall be reading them.
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, ed. with an Introduction by Owen Knowles (London: Penguin Classics, 2007).
Musil, Robert, Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2011).
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse, ed. with an Introduction by David Bradshaw (Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 2006).
Döblin, Alfred, Berlin Alexanderplatz: Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf, ed. by Werner Stauffacher (Munich: DTV, 2002).
Sekondärlitertur/Secondary texts:
Please consult selectively! The Erläuterungen and the relevant essays in the various Cambridge Companions are recommended as introductory accompaniments to the texts:
Faulkner, Peter, Modernism (London: Routledge Revivals, 2013).
Kiesel, Helmut, Geschichte der literarischen Moderne: Sprache, Ästhetik, Dichtung im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (Frankfurt: C. H. Beck, 2004).
Levenson, Michael (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Roe, Sue and Susan Sellers, The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Sander, Gabriele, Erläuterungen und Dokumente zu Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2001).
Schröder-Werle, Renate, Erläuterungen und Dokumente zu Robert Musil: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2001).
Stape, J. H., The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Other texts will be made available on the Virtual Campus. Texts will be uploaded in the course of the semester, shortly before the relevant seminar is due to take place. Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected. Absences will be excused when they result from circumstances beyond students’ control (illness, family emergency, religious holiday).
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 4
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