Lehrende/r: Laura Gill; Dr. Patrick Gill
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 8,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: S 313 BS/ELC
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Inhalt: While all forms of literature are defined by the tension between their restrictions on the one hand and their potential to create meaning on the other, few genres seem to exploit this tension to the extent that the form of the prequel does. It has to deal with predetermined names, plotlines and outcomes while still holding sway over the reader's perception. Our first extended weekend session in November will posit the central questions to be asked of this very distinct literary form and discuss two seminal texts in anglophone literary history, Charlotte Bronte's _Jane Eyre_ (1847) and Jean Rhys' _Wide Sargasso Sea_ (1966) with particular consideration given to their intertextual relationship. Our second extended weekend session (January) will revisit an even greater classic, William Shakespeare's _Hamlet_ (c. 1599), before considering its relation to American novelist John Updike's _Gertrude and Claudius_ (2000).
Empfohlene Literatur: Texts (to be acquired in the editions given!) - Bronte, Charlotte. _Jane Eyre_. 1847. Ed. Richard J. Dunn. New York, London: Norton, 2001. Print. Rhys, Jean. _Wide Sargasso Sea_. 1966. Ed. Judith L. Raiskin. New York, London: Norton, 1999. Print. Shakespeare, William._Hamlet_. Choose between New Cambridge or Arden critical editions! Updike, John. Gertrude and Claudius. Any edition. Your familiarity with these texts will be tested at the beginning of our respective weekends. Final day for paper submission: 15 March.
