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Instructors: Dr. Patrick Gill
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.410
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: ELC 410
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
DO NOT REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS IF YOU ARE ALREADY REGISTERED FOR 05.874.210!
Contents:
From Wolfgang Iser's interpretive gaps to conspicuous absences in modern drama, all the way to the ending of The Sopranos, this class is interested in the aesthetics of omission, of what is not said.
This can include the related but obviously not interchangeable phenomena of allusion, substitution, suggestiveness and indirection. Theoretical approaches to the poetics of omission will draw on reader response theory, cognitive theory, and ideas of representation and the limits of representation found in an array of genres and writers from various periods. While the class is designed to discuss phenomena in abstract terms so that they can then be transferred onto texts of your choice in your essays, for sheer economy, the majority of our examples in class will probably be taken from poems and short stories.
A reader with shorter texts and list of longer texts will be made available nearer the start of the semester, and students will be asked to read a number of texts/possibly watch some film/TV in preparation of this class.
Recommended reading list:
While shorter texts will be provided, the two longer texts to be read in this class are -
Martin Amis, Night Train
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
If you would llike to get started on your reading for this class, yiou could read those two texts in any edition available (even though we will only discuss them in late spring).
Digital teaching:
This class will be taught online. While there will be a strictly limited number of live sessions on teams, the mainstay of this class will take the form of asynchronous teaching (i.e. weekly reading assignments, uploads and responses to be taken care of any time between Tuesday and Friday afternoon).
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