Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Tancke
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: S Literatur GB
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Deutsch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
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
Warteliste:
Wartelistenquote: 50%
Inhalt: Contemporary British fiction is preoccupied with scenarios of guilt, trauma and loss: violence, death, traumatic experiences and apocalyptic anxieties are prevalent thematic and aesthetic concerns. With the postmodern fascination with fragmentation and the dissolution of meaning on the wane, critics have postulated the ‘traumatological’ nature of contemporary writing (Philip Tew) and detected a post-millennial aesthetic of responsibility and conscience. This course seeks to examine the concern with guilt, trauma and loss in a set of contemporary British novels, as well as their inflections with personal and collective history, memory, violence and trauma. It aims to investigate the possible reasons for this shift in perspective, its relation to recent political events, its ethical implications and its potential ambiguities and contradictoriness. Set texts: Pat Barker, Another World. London: Penguin, 1999. (ISBN 0140258981) Ian McEwan, Saturday. London: Vintage, 2005. (ISBN 0099469685) Jon McGregor, So Many Ways to Begin. London: Bloomsbury, 2006. (ISBN 0747584133) Ali Smith, The Accidental. London: Penguin, 2006. (ISBN 0141010398)
