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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie (Phil) >>
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World War II in the British Imagination- Dozent/in
- Lukas Lammers, M.A.
- Angaben
- Proseminar
2 SWS, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mi 12:15 - 13:45, C 303
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Registration is required for this lecture. Die Anmeldung erfolgt via: CASSY Erlangen
- Inhalt
- “Whenever the Bundesbank raises interest rates or the Italians beat us at football the question ‘Who won the bloody war anyway?’ rises unbidden from our subconscious” (James Richard in the Guardian). As Janet Watson recently affirmed, it would indeed “be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Second World War to British national identity.” In this course we will study the cultural memory of Word War II by exploring a wide range of materials – from early writings of Dylan Thomas and Elizabeth Bowen (produced during or shortly after the war) to recent novels by Martin Amis and A.L. Kennedy, to the extremely popular BBC television drama Small Island (2009), based on Andrea Levy’s 2004 award-winning novel.
The aim of the course is – broadly speaking – threefold: it will consider a wide variety of materials both form a literary and a cultural studies point of view; it will offer an overview of the changing representations of one of the most defining ‘events’ of the twentieth century from a distinctly British perspective; and it will introduce participants to the fascinating field of Memory Studies. A focus on aspects of memory in this case also implies that we will not only – not even primarily – study texts produced during the war. Rather, the seminar takes a diachronic perspective considering materials from 1939 to the present. Although the focus will be on cinematic and literary representations, we will also discuss war rhetoric in recent journalism, aspects of material culture, and websites like the BBC’s People’s War’ archive. Themes will include the Holocaust, the British ‘home front’, gender roles, conflicting memories of the bombings of German cities, the role of British colonial troupes, and the decline of Empire.
Longer texts: Students wishing to participate must acquire and read the following three novels (details below): Graham Greene’s The Ministry of Fear, Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991), A.L. Kennedy’s Day (2007). Other materials will be made available via StudOn. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Registration is required for this lecture. Die Anmeldung erfolgt via: CASSY Erlangen
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Students wishing to participate must acquire copies of the following three novels: (1) Amis, Martin. Time's Arrow. London: Vintage, 2003 [preferably this edition or later reprints]. (2) Greene, Graham. The Ministry of Fear. New York: Vintage, 2006 [preferably this edition or later reprints]. (3) Kennedy, A L. Day: A Novel. New York: Vintage, 2008 [preferably this edition or later reprints]. [Other materials will be made available via StudOn.]
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Anglistik, insbesondere Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
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