Lehrende/r: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: 05.874.522
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: ELC 522
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: internet access
Inhalt: Memoirs are usually understood as the recollections of one or several bracketed periods of the writer’s entire life; they can consist of biographical as well as autobiographical writing; some critics consider memoirs “scandalous” and “titillating” publications that give away too much sordid information about people’s private lives. And yet memoirs are well and alive in high and popular culture alike. The aim of the course is for students to develop an understanding of the theory of auto/biographical writing from the nineteenth-century to the present, trace continuities and discontinuities of key themes and narrative techniques, and analyse contemporary examples such as the bibliomemoir Girl with Dove written by Sally Bailey and the celebrity memoir Me written by Elton John.
Empfohlene Literatur: Smith, Sidonie, and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. 2001.Web <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/umainz/detail.action?docID=557527>. Hemecker, Wilhelm, and Edward Saunders. Biography in Theory, Key Texts with Commentaries. 2017. Print.
Digitale Lehre: The seminar 522 will commence in digital form via the Learning Management System - LMS - called Moodle in asynchronic weekly seminars. Please follow the general instructions for Moodle and check your emails for instructions starting on 23 April 2020.
