Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anja Müller-Wood
Veranstaltungsart: hybrid: Vorlesung
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 2,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
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Inhalt: Although the aim of this lecture is to give a survey of “the English novel”, this overview will not be conducted chronologically. The lecture focuses on the different ways that novelists have been attempting to create a sense of mind through literary language; that is, how and by which strategies they have been trying to ascribe mental processes to their characters, thereby creating an impression of an inner life. This, I claim, is a crucial motivation behind the form of the novel and the reason why it has been so successful over time. The novel does something which is impossible in real life: It provides a way into the minds of others, even though these others are fictions. The narratological focus of this lecture allows me to draw out continuities in the history of the novel which the scholarly emphasis on its change and development tends to overlook and reveal surprising similarities in interest and technique across time.
