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HS Literature and the Sciences- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Antje Kley
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
nur Fachstudium, LAFV, LAFN, Magister, Master, Bachelor
Time and place: single appointment on 16.4.2015 12:15 - 13:45, C 601; single appointment on 9.5.2015, single appointment on 13.6.2015, single appointment on 11.7.2015 9:00 - 18:00, C 601; single appointment on 16.7.2015 12:15 - 13:45, C 601
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das HS Literature kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature" BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Literature" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature:
Mastermodul 5: "Aufbaumodul Literary Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs (nur im SS)
Mastermodul 8: "Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies": HS mit begleitender Independent Study MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": mit begleitendem Kurs "Readings in..."
Das HS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Mastermodul 4: "Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs; Mastermodul 7: "Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies": HS mit begleitender Independent Study MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": mit begleitendem Kurs "Readings in ..."
- Contents
- Focusing on the powers of a specifically literary discourse, this class explores literature and the sciences as two distinctly different modes of observing and producing knowledge about the world.Scientific modes of observation, on the one hand, assign a secondary role to language, as supposedly transparent and instrumental; they are tied to highly specialized questions, technical apparatuses, and strict methodologies in order to produce objective innovation in circumscribed fields. Literature, on the other hand, explores and interrogates language use; it is free from narrower notions of depersonalized objectivity and may address any field of interest.Reading texts by Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams as well as more recent writers, the class will trace how scientific discourse informs literary writing and how literature articulates both defiance of and fascination with science. The course will also attend to the intense debate between the sciences and the humanities from the late 19th century to the present day, striving for a clearer grasp of how and to what end literary writing discusses the possibility, the texture and the preconditions of knowledge itself.
Students’ final papers will put into historical perspective recent science narratives by such writers as Margaret Atwood, Greg Bear, Michael Crichton, Ursula Le Guin, Richard Powers, Bruce Sterling, Steve Tomasula, William Vollmann and others.
Independent study formats for BA and MA students will include the lecture series by the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science Studies on „Narrating Science“ which features internationally renown scholars talking about their work (Mondays 7pm).
- Recommended literature
- Preparatory reading will be available on StudOn by the end of February. Please ask Frau Rohde (karin.rohde@fau.de) for the course password.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 30
Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Assigned lectures
- UE: ISG Literature and the Sciences
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Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Antje Kley
Time and place: n.V.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2015:
- Amerikanistik, Modul C
- Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
- Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
- Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card (WiC)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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