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Instructors: Dr. Rachael Sumner
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.313
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
8,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: ELC 313
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
This course will examine the way ancient myth has formed a significant focus and source of inspiration for writers across the course of British literary history. We will be working with texts reflective of a range of genres to address issues of mythopoeia, intertextuality and narratology. The intention of the course is to stimulate discussion of perceptions of myth across various historical periods. In what ways, we will be asking, can it be exploited to reflect or challenge ideology or cultural norms? We will begin by thinking of the way Medieval Romance is stitched into a quasi mythic setting in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (1609). We will then move on to look at Romantic poetry and explore Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1820 lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound. The course will then focus on the twentieth century and the fusion of Greek and Celtic myth in poetry by the Anglo-Irish writer W.B. Yeats. Finally, we will encounter myth in the twenty-first century with Pat Barker’s novel The Silence of the Girls.
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