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Irish Autobiography (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Montag | 18:15 - 19:45 | 18.10.2010 - 31.01.2011 | C 16.129 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Autobiography is most commonly defined as “the biography of a person narrated by that person”, or “the story of a person’s life as told by him or herself”. In this seminar we will look at the Irish autobiographical tradition, examining key trends and themes of autobiographies published in the last and the present centuries, and placing them in their historical, cultural, literary and ideological contexts. Authors and works will include James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Frank McCourt’s Angela's Ashes (1996), and Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People (2003). We will also examine the generic features of autobiographies in terms of ‘life writing’ and ask why the genre has moved, during the last four decades, from the peripheries to the centre of the literary canon.

The cultural construction and literary representation of national characters (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 19.10.2010 - 01.02.2011 | C 11.308 Seminarraum

Inhalt: National character, its construction, and its representation in literature is the focus of this seminar which will approach these issues from a number of angles. Theoretical approaches will range from the historical materialist approach by Benedict Anderson who defines a nation as "an imagined political community", through studies on national stereotypes in the area of social psychology, to the key discipline which deals with the representation of foreign nations, imagology or image studies. The seminar will not be purely theory based, however; we will be critically examining and discussing a range of different literary texts and genres, with special (but not exclusive) focus on the representation of Germans in British fiction and on the representation of foreign nations in illustrated texts.