Lehrende/r: Dr. Patrick Gill; Laura Kitzinger
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: BS 313
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: S I BS
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: All students will have to participate regularly as well as actively and their reading of all texts under discussion will be checked on a regular basis. Pre-2011-rules students will undertake a graded presentation of five to ten minutes on an academic essay of their choosing which concerns itself with one of our texts. Everyone else will simply volunteer to act as an expert on one of our texts. Seminar papers (6-8 pages for BEds, 10-12 pages for BAs) will have to be handed in by 15 March. No exceptions. Guideline for all questions of formatting and documentation will be the departmental style sheet: http://www.english.uni-mainz.de/downloads/sheet.pdf Any form of documentation deviating from this (or any more current MLA manual) will lead to a deduction of points.
Inhalt: Realism has been a governing principle of European literary endeavour for nearly three centuries and has become a staple object both of scholarly discussion and readerly expectation. So pervasive is our culture's love affair with the idea of realism, that Robert J. Thompson included it as a key criterion of what he termed Quality TV in his 1997 study of that phenomenon - but without feeling the need to offer any clear-cut definition of the term. Despite its undeniably prominent place in our present culture, realism remains a contingent concept. This class will look at narrative works of diverse centuries to ask in how far they avail themselves or are reflective of ideas of realism.
Empfohlene Literatur: John Milton, Lycidas# Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Samuel Richardson, Pamela Jane Austen, Love and Friendship#, Emma* Caroline Kirkland, A New Home, Who'll Follow? Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Thomas Hardy, Short Stories James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* * indicates texts that will need to be bought (regardless of the exact edition). # indicates texts students should find for themselves in various Norton Anthologies or online. All other texts will be provided.
