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Instructors: Sarah Faber
Event type:
Proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.122
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: BS/ELC 122
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Narrative texts use a wide array of tools and strategies to convey meaning, structure their plots and manipulate their readers' emotions and judgement. Literary scholars must recognise and understand these subtle mechanics in order to successfully work with a text, which this course will offer frequent opportunities for practising. We will trace the texts' narrative strategies and consider them through the different lenses of the most widely known critical theories, then put our findings to use and discuss good academic writing practices as well as common problems.
We will be working with the following primary texts, of which you should get your own copy and which you should read in time:
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847. Penguin Classics, 2006.
Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Arden Shakespeare, 1997.
Winterson, Jeannette. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. 1985. Vintage, 2014.
Please finish reading King Lear by 25 October!
It is fine if you prefer working with ebooks, rather than with physical copies. However, make sure you acquire a proper, academic edition of each book! Preferably the same edition as the rest of the class. (Random pdfs found via Google search are not reliable sources and may be incomplete or even infringe copyright law.) Also, for physical copies, please use ones that you are comfortable carrying around and writing in; beautiful coffee table editions and ‘complete works’ volumes are usually not great as course material.
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