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Instructors: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Monika Class
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.124
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
2,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Contents:
This lecture will offer critical reflections on key ideas that underpin and are debated in the literature of the Romantic period, roughly 1789-1832. These will include: nature and childhood; memory, vision and the imagination; the self and subjectivity; reason and emotion; private and public; time and posterity; fragment and unity. Students will be encouraged to make advanced connections between different authors within and beyond the Romantic Period, and to situate individual works in their wider literary, intellectual and historical context. The lecture aims to foster an appreciation of the Enlightenment influences on and afterlives of Romanticism. It will explore the legacies of Romanticism and reflect critically on the persistence and permutations of its presence in post-Romantic literature, thought and culture.
Recommended reading list:
Greenblatt, Stephen, and M. H. Abrams, eds. The Norton anthology of English literature, Volume D: The Romantic Period. 9th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012.
Roe, Nicholas. Romanticism: An Oxford guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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