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Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung 4.3 statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.
The time span between 1895 and 1950 was turbulent and violent, yet in the field of literature, it led to an enormous diversity of experiments and writing styles. From late Victorian and Edwardian visions of the future to the aftermath of World War II, the time span was replete with ruptures on all cultural levels. In this lecture course, we will both closely read canonical texts and look at selected literary and cultural contexts. Among the topics to be discussed are: the synchronicity of the old and the new, the late colonialism, diverse ‘isms’ within the project of modernism, war literature, the fragmented individual, changes in narrative techniques, formal experiments in poetry, changes of sex, sexualities and gender, generic innovations, the intermedial dialogue between literature and film, old and new roles of art. Among the authors to be discussed are: H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, R. C. Sherriff, Vera Brittain, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Noël Coward, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas.
There will be a final test (45 mins) in the second half of the last lecture (10th of February, 2015).
Texts:
Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ninth Edition. Package 2: Volumes D, E, F. New York: Norton, 2012. ISBN 978-0-393-91301-9
[For this lecture course, you will need volumes E (only briefly) and, mostly, F. You will be able to use these volumes also in other courses.]
Diese Vorlesung ist innerhalb der neuen Studiengänge für folgende Module verwendbar:
Neue Lehrämter: Literatur und Kultur Vertiefung
Literatur und Kultur Hauptfach – BA
Literatur und Kultur Nebenfach – BA
Britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft – MA
Britische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Hauptfach – MA |
