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Instructors: Jun.-Prof. Sibylle Baumbach
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.522
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: GS II BS
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
When Virginia Woolf announced to focus on “thoughts and feelings” instead of “cups and tables”, she had indeed, as she claimed in her diary, "finally arrived at some idea of a new form for a new novel”. Drawing on the stream-of-consciousness technique, her novels focus on the human mind: they explore how the mind works, how it processes information, and how we make sense of the world. In this manner, Woolf’s novels connect to the theory of mind, which adds to the appeal of her fiction. As scholars have claimed, part of the pleasure of reading derives from the ability of fiction to test our theory of mind by presenting minds in action. In this seminar, we will further explore the intersection of science and art in Woolf’s fiction and discuss the connection between modern fiction and theory of mind.
Core reading:
Please purchase your own copy of the following texts (Oxford World’s Classics):
Woolf, Virginia. <i>Jacob’s Room<i>. Ed. Kate Flint. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
-----. <i>Mrs Dalloway<i>. Ed. David Bradshaw. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
-----. <i>The Waves<i>. Ed. David Bradshaw. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
-----. <i>To the Lighthouse<i>. Ed. David Bradshaw. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Recommended reading list:
Lisa Zunshine, <i>Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel<i>. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006.
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