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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.522
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: ELC 522
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
This course deals with a much abused yet commercially immensely successful genre, novels supposedly written predominantly for a female readership dealing with love and its complications. The seminar will approach them critically, but without prejuduce. Students will be introduced to the long history of romance and to three contemporary representatives. It will learn to identify structural elements of the romance, e.g. coincidence, and evaluate them. It will also consider and debate the ideologies (e.g. of gender and class) informing modern popular romances as well as critical writings on romance, e.g. by feminist critics.
The text to be purchased and read in the seminar are
Catherine Cookson, Kate Hannigan (1950)
Maeve Binchy, Circle of Friends (1990) and
Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers (1987).
Recommended preparatore reading:
Catherine M. Roach (2016): Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Ebook.
The course will be taught in digital format using Teams as a platform.
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