Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
Canadian Short Fiction: Trends and Developments (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Maria Moss
Termin:
wöchentlich | Freitag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 5.310 Seminarraum
Inhalt: If there's one genre Canadian writers have excelled in and pushed to new limits, it is the short story. Consequently, Alice Munro was the first writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature for her collections of short stories. Starting in the 1960s with the rise of Canadian nationalism (meaning becoming aware of being a nation separate from both the U.S. and England/France), writers such as Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, or Alistair McLeod have embarked on the successful journey of firmly establishing the short story in the literary history of Canada. After a general introduction to Canadian literature, we will concentrate on the many different groups that have contributed to furthering the short genre in Canada (Métis, Inuit, First Nations, immigrant writing, and the so-called mainstream) and will look at their achievements.
Children's literature (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 08:15 - 09:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 5.325 Seminarraum | C 5.325
Inhalt: Children's literature has, since its beginnings in the 18th century, been a source both of entertainment and instruction for child readers as well as a product which reflects adults' perceptions of children and the choices that they make regarding what literature is suitable for the young. It is addressed to a wide range of readers from pre-literate toddlers to young adults and encompasses an equally wide range of genres including picturebooks, traditional folk and fairy tales, novels, poetry, and informational books. In this seminar, you will become familiar with a selection of literature in the English-speaking cultures across time, and learn to appreciate this branch of literature through close reading and work with different critical approaches. You will examine the distinctive qualities of children’s literature, explore the relation of didacticism and entertainment in texts for children at different historical periods, and consider the changing concepts of the child and its influence on the production of children's literature.