HS Jonathan Swift (AE_HSSwift)- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Rudolf Freiburg
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 10:15 - 11:45, C 601
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Modulzugehörigkeit, Zulassungsvoraussetzungen, Prüfung
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (301) Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) - Hausarbeit Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) - Hausarbeit (80 %) MA English Studies: Core Module: Literature (module 4051, exam 40511) - Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3 pages, 20%) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Literature (module 8360, exam 83601) - Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2–3pages, 20%) MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Modul 4
- Contents
- Jonathan Swift is one of the most important satirists of the eighteenth century. In this seminar, we will concentrate on his satires written in both prose and verse. After analysing the political satire in Book I and II, the attacks on science in Book III and the concept of Swift's "new anthropology" in Book IV of Gulliver's Travels (1726), we will focus on the complex satirical innuendos of The Battle of the Books (1704), A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument against Abolishing Christianity in England (1708) and A Modest Proposal (1729). Basing our discussions on traditional and contemporary positions of theory we will finally study Swift’s most significant verse satires such as "The Lady's Dressing Room" (1732), "The Beasts' Confession to the Priest" (1732), "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" (1734) und "Strephon and Chloe" (1734).
- Recommended literature
- Angus Ross und David Woolley (Hrsg.): Jonathan Swift (Oxford und New York, 1984).
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 10.2.2020, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 18.4.2020, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2020:
- Anglistik, Modul D (M 4)
- Core Module Literature (Core Lit)
- Master Module II: Literature (Master II: Lit)
- Department: Chair of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Freiburg)
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