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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anja Müller-Wood
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.210
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 35
Requirements / organisational issues:
ATTENTION! - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR IS ON OFFER BOTH AS Seminar ELC 210 AND Seminar ELC 313.
DO NOT REGISTER FOR BOTH!
Contents:
In this course you will study a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts not in light of what they describe and say, but with a focus on how they do this. That is, this seminar is dedicated to form rather than content, i.e., it deals with the many facets of literary language.
Its underlying premise is that literature is a form of communication and that the means chosen by authors to communicate with readers are not merely decorative padding (to be considered only after an analysis of a text's content) but in fact constitute powerful meaning-carrying elements without which the content of literary texts cannot be understood fully.
The aim of this course is to train your skills in identifying and analysing these elements and provide you with the methodology and terminology needed to describe them as clearly and precisely as possible. Among the topics addressed are: deixis, inference, irony, metaphor/metonymy, modality, narrative stance/perspective, transitivity.
Recommended reading list:
The seminar will be based on George Eliot's short novel Silas Marner (1861). All students are required to obtain a version of this book and should, ideally, have read it before the course begins.
Further materials (both literary and non-literary) will be made available before the beginning of and during the semester (notification via Jogustine).
Additional information:
Course requirements: regular attendance, active participation, completing the tasks (written and other) set as homework and/or "Aktive Teilnahme".
Additional term papers for students in relevant modules (please check your individual study programmes).
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