English Short Stories- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Rudolf Freiburg
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h
Time and place: Tue 10:15 - 11:45, C 601
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A(301) Literary Studies (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) - HA
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYMLiterature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature), HA (80 %)
MA English Studies: Core Module Literature –Portfolioprüfung: HA und Thesenpapier (40511) bzw. Teilbereichsmodul Literature– HA (40501) und Thesenpapier (40502);
Master Module II - Portfolioprüfung: HA undThesenpapier (83601) bzw. Schwerpunktmodul II Literature - HA (40801) undThesenpapier (40802)
MA Literaturstudien – intermedial undinterkulturell: (Anglistik als Kernfach) Modul 4
- Contents
- In this seminar, we will study the history of the English Short Story from its origins in the 17th and18th centuries to the postmodern variations of the form in contemporary literature. We will analyse the generic features of the 'anecdote', the 'essay' and the 'oriental tale', and then focus on the 'novelette' and its aesthetic theory. After discussing Edgar Allan Poe's endeavours to distinguish short stories from the novel we will read and interpret selected examples of the genre taken from the vast repertoire of modernist literature. We will examine James Joyce's notion of 'epiphany', Virginia Woolf's concept of 'the moment of vision' and Katherine Mansfield's idea of 'the glimpse'. The seminar will end with an analysis of the short story in postmodern contexts, where its form is disrupted by experimental techniques such as 'foregrounding', 'intertextuality', 'self-reflexivity' and 'meta-textuality'.
- Recommended literature
- A list of the texts to be read in class will soon be published on StudOn.
- Additional information
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2017:
- Anglistik, Modul C (M 4)
- Core Module Literature (Core Lit)
- Department: Chair of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Freiburg)
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