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Zeit: Di, 10-12
Ort: C5 3, 1.20
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 international commemoration machinery has been revving full throttle in preparation of the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. For the time being, there is a heightened cultural production as politicians, curators, artists and academics re-member this first total war, which brought death to 10 million soldiers and unprecedented horrors on an industrial(ised) scale. In this seminar, we will turn to the ways in which the Great War has been (re)imagined in recent British fiction and film, and tap into an unbroken literary tradition first shaped by Trench Poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. While the First World War has often been described as a watershed and a turning point, it has in many ways proved to be a site of historical, military and also literary continuities. Key issues of the seminar are the representations of class, gender and social change as well as questions of identity, dislocation, the past and the (re)construction of memory.
Texts (please buy no other than the editions below):
Barker, Pat. Regeneration. London: Penguin, 2008. ISBN 978-0-141-03093-7
Faulks, Sebastian. Birdsong. London: Vintage, 2010. ISBN 978-0-091-93727-0
Additional texts will be made available in a seminar reader.
Please, make sure to have read both novels before the start of term. |
