Lehrende/r: Dr. Jochen Ecke
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: ELC 512
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Inhalt: Why write a prose narrative of several hundred pages at all? This may sound like a frivolous question from our contemporary point of view – after all, the novel is still of great cultural importance today, despite frequent pronouncements of its imminent demise. But from the vantage point of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the question turns out not to be frivolous at all: within the span of a few short decades, the novel emerges almost fully formed, a veritable explosion of new narrative norms. What are the causes of this frantic formation of a new kind of literature? And which challenges did the pioneers of the form have to face? In this class, we are going to find answers to these questions: by exploring the cultural and historical backgrounds of these early prose narratives, but also by paying special attention to the poetics of the novel. Texts are going to include Samuel Richardson’s Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Lawrence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759-1767) as well as Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764). The full list of texts is to be announced once registration is completed. If possible, please buy the Oxford World’s Classics editions of the novels.
