Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Tancke
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: BS 122
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: Proseminar I - 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
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: A reader with additional materials will be available as from 1 March 2010 in Frau Wächter's office (01-577)
Inhalt: Relationships between parents and children constitute one of the most basic and fundamental conditions of human life, but are also notoriously fraught. Idea(l)s of love, closeness and benevolent guidance are offset by underlying struggles for power and dominance. In addition, parent-child relationships have always been played out against a backdrop of changing conceptualisations of childhood, parenting and the family. This course examines portrayals of parents and children in a variety of literary texts across four centuries. It seeks to trace shifting perceptions of childhood and parenting and their reflections in literature, but also to examine to what extent these may point to shared concerns that remain constant over time. Set texts: Thomas Middleton, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1613) (New Mermaids). London: A&C Black, 2002. ISBN 978-0713650686. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814). London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 978-0141439807. Ian McEwan, The Child in Time (1987). London: Random House, 2001. ISBN 978-0099755012.
