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Erste Vorlesung: 16. Oktober 2018
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 we will discuss in this lecture course was turbulent and violent. 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, these few decades were 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, old and new roles of art, changes of sex / sexualities / gender, generic innovations, the intermedial dialogue between literature and film. Among the authors to be discussed are: H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, 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, Aldous Huxley, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Noël Coward, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas.
There will be a final test (45 mins) in the second half of the last lecture (5th of February, 2019).
Texts:
Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Tenth Edition. Package 2: Volumes D, E, F. New York: Norton, 2018. ISBN 978-0-393-60313-2
NB: 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. The anthology should be available at Bock & Seip on campus before the start of the new term |
