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Instructors: Simge Büyükgümüs
Event type:
Proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.122
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 45
Registration group: AS 122
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
The proseminar is discussion-based, and active participation in the discussions will be expected. There will be one novel, various short stories, SF magazines and comic books assigned for readings (to be specified later). Assessment will be done though one discussion moderation (in groups) and a final argumentative essay. You will be provided guidelines for the moderation by the instructor, and you will be expected only to lead the discussion on the specified week's text by previously analysing it through the guidelines. It is recommended that you have taken Written English before attending this class.
Contents:
This proseminar will focus specifically on the science fiction genre in North American literature through its historical relevance and socio-cultural background, with specific attention to its interactions with different media, technologies, scientific and political developments. SF’s representative themes and topics will be explored through philosophical speculation, and literary and rhetoric analysis. Additionally, movements that the genre saw from the beginning of the 20th century roughly until 2000's will be explored with regard to utopian narratives, the dystopian turn, afrofuturism, feminism, cyberpunk and postmodernism.
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