Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig
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
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: The seminar will deal with a successful subgenre of the novel that emerged in the 19th century. Then, novels like Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) started glorifiying the public school system. Yet already at the turn of the century, texts such as Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co. stories (1899 ff.) made fun of such ideals. A female equivalent was produced by Angela Brazil with A Harum-Scarum Schoolgirl (1919). In the 20th century general questions about authority and power were asked, for example in Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), before the end of the century embraced the school story again in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997).
Anwesenheitspflicht: I will not check attendance in this course. But it should be evident that it will only work if participants are present regularly.
Inhalt: An overview of the school story in Britain from the mid-19th century to the present
Empfohlene Literatur: Students will be provided with electronic copies of Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays, selected Stalky stories by Kipling and Brasil's A Harum-Scarum Schoolgirl on LMS. They should buy their own copies of Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (the Penguin edition is recommended) and J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (the Bloomsbury Children's Books edition is fine). A useful background text is Jeffrey Richards (1988): Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Print.
Digitale Lehre: The course will be conducted live, but selected materials will be made available on LMS.
