Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: GS I AS
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: The rapid transit of things in trade and commerce provided the impulse behind a genre of fiction that became popular in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on both sides of the Atlantic, with titles such as "Adventures of a Dollar," "History of a Hat," or "The Strange Tale of a Type Writer." Theses stories were called 'it-narratives' or 'novels of circulation.' They recorded the experience of things as they pass through the hands of a series of owners; frequently inanimate objects or animals. The examples of narratives we are going to read appeared in different forms, including short stories, periodical fiction and serialized works. This seminar will explore the circulation of objects in an increasingly commercial society and draw attention to the insights these stories provided into social and cultural trends. Combining current approaches in the fields of material studies, literary criticism, and print culture studies, the course raises questions about how literature and the material object world intersect and whether or not literary texts possess "a material unconscious" (Bill Brown). We will read a good selection of short narratives and excerpts from novels as well as relevant theoretical texts of material culture. A reader will be posted on ILIAS.
