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PS/MS Coffeehouse Culture (AE_MSCCult)- Lecturer
- Jaroslaw Jasenowski, M.A.
- Details
- Mittelseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Tue 14:15 - 15:45, room tbd
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all winter term classes will be taught online.
Das Seminar gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II Literature BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II Culture
Scheinerwerb: Referat + Hausarbeit
- Contents
- The seventeenth century paved the way for many developments we regard as 'modern'. Public participation in the form of open discussions, the development of what we today regard as 'news' and the beginnings of what came to be known as science. The coffeehouse acted as a catalyst for all of these by offering an opportunity for (professional) exchange. Also home to rumours and tall tales, the coffeehouse called for a constant assessment of the truthfulness of the words spoken there. In this seminar we are therefore not only going to explore the coffeehouse as a space but also the ideas and information flowing through that space, how seventeenth-century readers made sense of the world and particularly how they were able to tell fact from fiction. Reading will include, among others, extracts from The Athenian Mercury (1691–97), The Tatler (1709–1711) and The Spectator (1711–1712). All texts will be made available online.
- Recommended literature
- Reading will be announced in the first session.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 24.8.2020, 19:00 and lasts till Saturday, 7.11.2020, 22:00 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Chair of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Freiburg)
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