Lehrende/r: Dr. Patrick Gill
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: GS I BS
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Inhalt: To the attentive observer, the lives and careers of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and Alexander Pope (1688-1744) appear full of contradictions: although they have come to embody neoclassicist orthodoxy, they saw themselves as political and cultural outsiders; although their conservative values favoured the writers of classical Greece and Rome over their contemporaries, they themselves were responsible for a number of literary innovations; and while they wrote in a period whose values and ideals seem far removed from ours, their works contain within themselves many a trace of modernity in the making.
Empfohlene Literatur: We will read a selection of the poetry and prose produced by these two exceptional writers: Swift: The Battle of the Books,* A Tale of a Tub,* Gulliver's Travels,* A Modest Proposal, Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift Pope: An Essay on Criticism,* The Rape of the Lock, Windsor Forest, Eloisa to Abelard, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, An Essay on Man* *Texts marked with an asterisk are so long that you should not count on reading them from one week to the next during term, so please do start reading soon. You can find the order in which these texts will be read below. There are diverse editions available of both Swift and Pope, but for a first reading you can find texts online: Alexander Pope: Complete Poetical Works: http://www.bartleby.com/203/ Jonathan Swift: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Jonathan_Swift TEXTS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE IN OUR CLASS: 1712 - The Rape of the Lock 1704 - A Tale of a Tub & The Battle of the Books 1711 - An Essay on Criticism 1713 - Windsor Forest 1717 - Eloisa to Abelard 1717 - Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 1726 - Gulliver's Travels 1729 - A Modest Proposal 1732 - Verses on the Death of Dr Swift 1734 - An Essay on Man
