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Erste Vorlesung: 8. November 2022 (wegen einer Exkursion in der ersten Vorlesungswoche und Allerheiligen am 1. November 2022)
Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.
This lecture course addresses the main literary developments and, in a few cases, filmic/medial developments that have shaped, negotiated with, and confronted the United Kingdom’s and Ireland’s cultural histories from 1945 to 1980. Due to the exuberance of the cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, this overview lecture course will cover only 36 years.
We will discuss and contextualize selected works by the following authors: Dylan Thomas, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Beckett, John Braine, Stevie Smith, John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, Harold Pinter, William Golding, Anthony Burgess, David Lodge, John Fowles, Tom Stoppard, Ian Fleming, John le Carré, Muriel Spark, Edward Bond, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Doris Lessing, Angela Carter.
There will be a final test (45 mins) in the second half of the last lecture, which will be held on 7 February 2023.
Texts:
Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Tenth Edition. Volumes D, E, F. New York: Norton, 2018. ISBN 978-0-393-60313-2
NB: You will find the Norton Anthology useful in other courses as well. Excerpts from texts that are not in the Norton Anthology will be made available. |
