Lehrende/r: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 8,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: ELC 410
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: This course compares pairs of texts with strong intertextual links. Focusing on questions of gender identity, we will look at drama, poetry and prose fiction from the early modern period to the present. Our reading of these texts will be informed by their cultural contexts, literary and gender theory, thus training students in working with different methods (historicist readings, formal analysis, cultural theories). We will start with a brief introduction to the theory of gender and postcolonialism. Then we will read two novels: Charlotte Brontë’s Victorian Bildungsroman "Jane Eyre" and its 20th-century prequel written by Jean Rhys, "Wide Sargasso Sea", which focuses on the story of the Jamaican Bertha Mason, the ‘madwoman’ confined to the attic of Thornfield Hall. Furthermore, we will focus on William Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" and relate it to Safiya Sinclair’s debut poetry book "Cannibal" (2016), which offers a new re-writing of Shakespeare’s play by juxtaposing images and words dealing with the figure of Caliban. The course will also include a guest lecture.
Empfohlene Literatur: Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Ed. Lutz, Deborah. A Norton Critical Edition 4th ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016 (1971). Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. Ed. Raiskin, Judith. New York: Norton Critical Editions, (1966) 1999. Print. Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Arden Shakespeare. Eds. Vaughan, Virginia Mason und Alden T. Vaughan. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. Sinclair, Safiya. Cannibal. 2016.Web. *Available as e-book from JGU library.
Zusätzliche Informationen: Students are asked to buy their own print copies of the two novels (mentioned above) and read them over the summer, i.e. before the start of term. I recommend the editions above.
