Lehrende/r: Sarah Faber
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: BS/ELC 122
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: Narrative texts use a wide array of tools and strategies to convey meaning, structure their plot and manipulate their readers' emotions and judgement. Literary scholars must recognise and understand these subtle mechanics in order to successfully work with a text, which this course will offer frequent opportunities for practising. We will trace the texts' narrative strategies and consider them through the different lenses of the most well-known critical theories, then put our findings to use and discuss good academic writing practices as well as common problems. We will be working with the following primary texts, of which you should get your own copy and which you should read in time: Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847. Penguin Classics, 2006. Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Arden Shakespeare, 1997. Winterson, Jeannette. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. 1985. Vintage, 2014. Please finish reading King Lear by 27 April! It is perfectly fine if you prefer working with ebooks, rather than physical copies. However, make sure you acquire a proper, academic edition of each book! Preferably the same edition as the rest of the class. (Random pdfs found via Google Search are not reliable sources and may be incomplete or even infringe copyright law.)
