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Epidemic Fiction: Narrative & Contagion [Import]- Lecturer
- PD Dr. Karin Höpker
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h
LAFV, Diplom, Master, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 14:15 - 15:45, room tbd
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all winter term classes will be taught online.
Das Hauptseminar gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen: • Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature
• BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A
• MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Modul 7, 8
• MA The Americas / Las Américas: Modul 3b, 4
• MA Literaturstudien - intermedial und interkulturell: Modul 4, 5, 7, 8 Für BA-Studierende ist an diesen Kurs eine Independent Study Group angeschlossen.
- Contents
- This class focuses on narratives of contagion along a spectrum of US American fiction. We will discuss a range of examples from the early republic and 19th-century gothic imagination to the present. Course materials range across media to explore the changing tropes of contagion and epidemic as well as a history of biopolitical thought and techniques. We will discuss fiction in the context of scientific discourses of infection and disease, treatment and containment and trace the rich archive of an epidemic imaginary deeply informed by hierarchies of privilege and factors of race, class, and gender.
- Recommended literature
- For syllabus and reading list, please consult StudOn.
Please buy and read in advance:
Steward O’Nan A Prayer for the Dying, Philip Roth Nemesis;
texts by Brown, Poe, Hawthorne, Wharton, Porter, Tiptree, Whitehead and others will be made available.
- Additional information
- 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.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2020/2021:
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4 ab 20182)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4 bis 20182)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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