Lehrende/r: Ronald Walker
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 6,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie zzgl. Bevorzugung höherer Fachsemester 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/senatsrichtlinieÜber die Senatsrichtlinie hinaus werden bei der Platzvergabe für diese Veranstaltung Studierende höherer Fachsemester bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: In this seminar, we will be reading and analysing travel and nature writing in and about Scotland from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Writers such as Edmund Burke, Thomas Pennant, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, Robert Burns, Sarah Murray, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson will take up the first half of the course. Our focus will be on the role played by different discourses of travel writing, from the antiquarian to the economic and the aesthetic in, among other things, defining and consolidating ideas about Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Twentieth and twenty-first century writers will include, Nan Shepherd, W.H. Murray, Gavin Maxwell, Rowena Farre, Robert MacFarlane, Amy Liptrot and Kathleen Jamie. Part of this second half of the seminar will also be used to explore the current phenomenon of so-called New Nature Writing. Two short essays, one describing personal experience of travel and/or nature (approx 1000 words), and one on a set text (approx. 2000 words, to be submitted at the end of semester) make up the formal written requirements for this course. A short presentation on a writer or text(s) will also be required, but will not be part of the formal assessment.
