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Literature and Survival (AE_HSLnSur)- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Rudolf Freiburg
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 10:15 - 11:45, 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 zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (301) Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) - Hausarbeit Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) - Hausarbeit (80 %) 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: 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
- Survival is a universal human desire, a necessity, a fundamental human right nobody would deny; but often survival is closely affiliated with complex questions concerning ethics, law, religion, tradition and culture. Survival is an ‘act’ which frequently demands extreme self-discipline, an iron will and favourable circumstances, but survival is also a ‘state of being’ that may bring about feelings of relief, contentment, euphoria and happiness, as well as those of doubt, insecurity, guilt and even depression. The seminar will first analyse the representation of survival in classical texts of the 18th and 19th centuries such as Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), H.G. Well’s The Time Machine (1895) before concentrating on contemporary literature. We will read and interpret the following books: Ruth Klüger, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered (2001), Alan Scott Haft: Harry Haft: Auschwitz Survivor, Challenger of Rocky Marciano (2006), Jon McGregor, Even the Dogs (2010) and Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time (2016).
- 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.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2020/2021:
- Anglistik, Modul 8 C (M 8)
- Anglistik, Modul 9 C (M 9)
- Core Module Literature (Core Lit)
- Master Module II: Literature (Master II: Lit)
- Department: Chair of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Freiburg)
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