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"Lest we remember”: War in Twentieth-Century English Literature & Culture- Dozent/in
- Dr. Robert Craig
- Angaben
- Seminar/Proseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS, Unterrichtssprache Deutsch, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 10.02.2023 (10:00 Uhr) bis 01.05.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 01.06.2023 (10:00 Uhr) bis 01.07.2023 (23:59 Uhr)
Zeit und Ort: Mo 11:30 - 13:00, LU19/00.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation
I. Literaturwissenschaft:
B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
II. Kulturwissenschaft:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul
Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability
I. Literaturwissenschaft:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft
II. Kulturwissenschaft:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)
The module will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words). Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.
- Inhalt
- “It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. […] [T]here’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.” Alan Bennett’s celebrated play, The History Boys (2004), alludes to the tendency of modern European societies to elide or altogether erase the human realities of war and conflict. But now that large-scale war has (once again) crashed back into the geopolitics of our continent, the task of ethically recording and remembering has shown itself to be more vital – if also more contested – than ever before.
This seminar will begin with a consideration of British cultures of remembrance around the two World Wars: a set of rituals of collective memory which often tread a fine line between sombre remembrance on one hand, and a thinly disguised glorification of the dead on the other. This memory culture will be placed in dialogue with the poetry of soldiers who served at the front line in the trenches of the Great War – and of the women many of them had to leave behind. We then turn to a much more recent representation of World War I, Pat Barker's much-celebrated Regeneration (1991): a novel which offers a brilliant yet disturbing insight into the traumatic lived experience(s) of industrial warfare. Empire of the Sun (1984), made into a film by Steven Spielberg three years later, is the British author J. G. Ballard’s surreal reimagining of his own childhood experience as a British expat in an internment camp in the wake of the UK’s declaration of war against the Japanese Empire in 1941. Finally, we turn to Graham Greene’s The Quiet American (1955), a novel set in 1950s Vietnam, which serves in retrospect as a prescient critique of the dawning era of American military interventions.
Please make sure you buy and read at least Regeneration and Empire of the Sun before the first week of the semester.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- II. Primärliteratur:
Ballard, J. G., Empire of the Sun [1984] (London: Fourth Estate, 2019).
Barker, Pat, Regeneration [1991] (London: Penguin, 2014).
Greene, Graham, The Quiet American [1955] (London: Penguin, 1991).
Kendell, Tim (ed.), Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology [1914-1925] (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2014).
II. Sekundärliteratur:
A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first week of the semester.
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.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- “Lest we remember”: War in Twentieth-Century English Literature & Culture
- Credits: 6
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Britische Kultur
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