Course Schedule

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Lehrveranstaltungen

Cultural Case Studies I: Beatrix Potter as a Victorian rebel (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 11:45 | 17.10.2007 - 30.01.2008 | C 12.013 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This is one of a series of self-contained seminars which focus on a particular time and place in the cultural history of English speaking countries using, as its pivot, an author, cultural event or body of texts from which to develop a panorama of that time. The focal point of this seminar is Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), best known for her Peter Rabbit series of animal picture books. She turned her back on the leisure class into which she was born and its notions of class and gender-appropriate behaviour to fulfil her desire for financial autonomy, buy her own property and become a hard-working countrywoman. Her picture books reveal, in plot and imagery, references to her personal life and her political viewpoints – for instance her opposition to Free Trade, sympathy for the working classes and concern for ecological matters. They also reveal an England and English identities produced in the context of imperialism and early twentieth-century redefinition of cultural identity. These and other matters will be addressed by this seminar in the broader context of Victorian and Edwardian England.

Englisch/FSZ: David Lodge: Changing Places (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Gary Walsh

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 08:15 - 09:45 | 15.10.2007 - 01.02.2008 | C 14.006 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Niveau C1 des Referenzrahmens für Sprachen (Europarat). In this campus novel two professors, one from America and one from England, each take the other’s position for half a year in 1969. Against the background of the student protest movements, frre love, the beginning of feminism, Lodge makes fun of the culture clash and the academic world. You must register for this course on myStudy.

Englisch/FSZ: Ethics in Fact and Fiction (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Maria Moss

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 15.10.2007 - 01.02.2008 | C 12.015 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The primary objective of this seminar is to introduce students to various ethical theories which will be applied to both corporate reality as well as cinematic and literary fiction. Students will be asked to analyze the social and moral implications of current issues as well as evaluate potential steps which can be taken to overcome such problems, and analyze the efficiency of those approaches in real and fictional contexts.

Early 20th-century Irish Drama (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 16.10.2007 - 29.01.2008 | W 201

Inhalt: This seminar examines the work of Irish dramatists Augusta Gregory, W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey and others in the context of the social, political and cultural scene in late-19th and early 20th-century Ireland: the Irish Literary Revival, the foundation of the Irish National Theatre, Irish writers in Britain, issues of history and language, Irish independence. The relation between naturalism and symbolism, tradition and experiment, populism and elitism, tragedy and comedy will be amongst the issues addressed.

Englisch/FSZ: Short Stories (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Sabrina Völz

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 08:15 - 09:45 | 15.10.2007 - 01.02.2008 | C 12.013 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In this survey course, students will read and discuss a variety of short stories by male and female writers. Students will gain practice analyzing the texts in terms of their literary, historical, and cultural significance