Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Credits: 8,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 31
Anmeldegruppe: ELC 522
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: Although terrorism has a long history, it achieves a special significance in the twentieth and twenty-first century. This is matched by its increasing prominence in journalism and literature. The seminar will, after defining what terrorism is and what it aims to achieve, investigate its representation in all literary genres, in journalism, and in film. Reading covers the first novel featuring a suicide bomber, Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1907), poems, a play and a film about terrorism in Northern Ireland, selected journalistic reports, as well as two postmodern novels on terrorism that shift the perspective to a) the victims of terrorism and b) Islamist terrorism. Session 1 - 15 Octoer 2019 Introduction: What Is Terrorism? The Histories of Terrorism Session 2 - 22 October 2019 European Terrorism in the late 19th- and early 20th century; Characteristics of a Terrorist Group - Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1907) Session 3 - 29 October 2019 Terrorist Personalities?; The Clash Between Private and Group Ideologies - Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1907) Session 4 - 5 November 2019 Terrorism and Normality; Defining Terrorism against Legitimate Self-Defence - Ciaran Carson, “Belfast Confetti” (1989); Michael Longley, “The Civil Servant from Wreaths” (1979); Seamus Heaney, “Punishment” (1975) Session 5 - 12 November 2019 Gender and Violence; Clichés of Ireland and their Subversion - Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001) Session 6 - 19 November 2019 The Morality of Dramatisation; Terrorism as a Dead End Street? - Martin McDonagh, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001) Session 7 - 26 November 2019 The Question of Neutrality; Strategies of Making Terrorism Comprehensible - David Leppard and Jonathan Calvert, “They struck out of the blue” (17 July 2005) Session 8 - 3 December 2019 The “Personal Dimension” and its Problems; Performing Terrorism - Ronan Bennett, “Inside the Mind of a Terrorist” (22 August 2004) Session 9 - 10 December 2019 Viewing Session - Ken Loach, The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) Session 10 - 17 December 2019 Gender, Sexuality, and Terror; Terrorism as Mainstream Entertainment - Ken Loach, The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) Session 11 - 7 January 2020 The Narrator and her Perspective; The Addressee of the Message - Chris Cleave, Incendiary (2005) Session 12 - 14 January 2020 A Journalistic Novel? Terrorism in Popular Fiction? - Chris Cleave, Incendiary (2005) Session 13 - 21 January 2020 Imagining Islamist Terrorism I - Sunjeev Sahota, Ours Are the Streets (2011) Session 14 - 28 January 2020 Imagining Islamist Terrorism II - Sunjeev Sahota, Ours Are the Streets (2011) Session 15 - 4 February 2020 Summary and Advice for Assessed Essays
