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Jonathan Swift (AE_HSSWFT)
- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Rudolf Freiburg
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 10:15 - 11:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Zulassungsvoraussetzung:
Modulzugehörigkeit:
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (301) Literature
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature
MA English Studies: Core Module: Literature (module 4051)
MA English Studies: Master Module II: Literature (module 8360)
Scheinerwerb: Referat + Hausarbeit
- 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
- Texte (anzuschaffen): Angus Ross und David Woolley (Hrsg.): Jonathan Swift (Oxford und New York, 1984).
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Registration is required for this lecture. Registration starts on Monday, 12.2.2018, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 31.3.2018, 23:59 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2018:
- Anglistik, Modul B (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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