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HS The Brontës and Their Cultural and Literary Legacies (AE_HSBron)- Lecturer
- Dr. Sandra Dinter
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 14:15 - 15:45, KH 1.014
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Modulzugehörigkeit, Zulassungsvoraussetzungen, Prüfung
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (301) Literature/Culture (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) - Hausarbeit Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) - Hausarbeit (80 %) MA English Studies: Core Module: Culture (module 4031, exam 40311) - Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2-3 pages, 20%) 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: Culture (module 8350, exam 83501) - 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 (Anglistik als Kernfach): Modul 9 Aufbaumodul
- Contents
- The works and lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë continue to fascinate readers all over the world. In fact, the sisters have become a profitable brand. Every year, numerous people visit the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, read the latest biographies of the family, watch film and television adaptations of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and buy modern rewritings of these novels. Many of the sisters' fictional characters have become icons. The Yorkshire moors, the sisters' pseudonyms, their imaginary childhood worlds, their alcoholic brother and their early deaths have fuelled the so-called 'Brontë myth'. One of the aims of this seminar is to deconstruct this influential myth. For this purpose, we will discuss the sisters' poetry and the novels Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and examine the texts' legacies in contemporary culture and literature. Exploring the concepts of 'transmedia storytelling', 'intertextuality' and 'adaptation' from a theoretically informed perspective, we will deal with (graphic) novels, films, songs and other media that reimagine the Brontës' works and lives. Note that this is a seminar that requires extensive reading. You should be prepared to read several 'bulky books' if you want to attend the seminar.
- Recommended literature
- Please purchase and read the 2006 Penguin Classics edition of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre [ISBN: 9780141441146 - please acquire this edition and no other!] over the term break and be ready to discuss it as our first primary text.
- 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 B (M 4)
- Core Module Culture (Core Cult)
- Core Module Literature (Core Lit)
- Master Module II: Culture (Master II: Cult)
- Master Module II: Literature (Master II: Lit)
- Department: Chair of English Literature and Culture (Prof. Dr. Feldmann)
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