Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anja Müller-Wood
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: GradSem II
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: Graduate Seminar II (Master) British Studies
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: Often dismissed as an archaic phenomenon and associated with non-Western cultures, revenge remains a powerful topos in the arts to this day. Taking revenge both as a species general and a historically and culturally specific phenomenon, this seminar will investigate the function of the representation of revenge at different moments in literary history.
Empfohlene Literatur: The following texts will be studied in this course and are required reading: William Shakespeare: Hamlet (Arden or Oxford edition) Thomas Middleton: The Revenger’s Tragedy. In: Four Revenge Tragedies, ed. K. E. Maus (Oxford edition, ISBN 978-0192838780) Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (Norton or Penguin Classics Edition) Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics Edition) Fay Weldon: Remember Me (Flamingo or Sceptre Edition) Alan Moore: V for Vendetta (1982-1988) (Random House 1995, ISBN 978-0930289522)
Zusätzliche Informationen: Further non-fictional reading material (from anthropology, history and psychology) will be made available before the semester (notification via Jogustine).
