Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bernhard Reitz
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: BS 123
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: Proseminar II - 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: For the reading test, participants are expected to have read >Mrs. Dalloway<.
Inhalt: Like no other British woman writer in the first half of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf has contributed to the shape of the modern novel. On the outside, the daughter of an eminent critic appeared to be a role model of "the new woman", well prepared to participate in the "modernist" discourse. However, as evidenced by her letters, journals, essays - and her novels too -, Virginia Woolf was also a writer for whom writing was a therapy and a self-inflicted torture at the same time. This proseminar will deal with the "selves" of Virginia Woolf, trying to assess her aesthetic achievements as well as her contradictions.
Empfohlene Literatur: The texts - >Mrs Dalloway<, >To the Lighthouse<, >Orlando< and >The Waves< (all Penguin) - will be available at the University Bookstore. Master copies of the non-fictional texts will be provided.
