Universität Wien

120014 SE Through a twisted mirror: 'Telling it as it isn't' (2007W)

Literary Seminar

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

anrechenbar als K 521, K 522 für AHStG-Studienplan. ECTS UF Englisch: 3.00

Details

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Freitag 05.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 12.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 19.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 09.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 16.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 23.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 30.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 07.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 14.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 11.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 18.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Freitag 25.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In the seminar we will analyse a number of recently published novels featuring unreliable, cognitively impaired or immature (child) narrators and discuss the effects such focalisation has on the supposed truth value of the narration and the reader's response to it. How do we recognise unreliable narration? Is our sympathy invariably engaged by insight into a narrator's mind and motivation or are we, rather, put off if his/her world view clashes too radically with our own beliefs and ethical values? How is it that the limited cognitive grasp of a narrator can be used, variously, to engage our compassion and understanding of people very different from us, as a tool for social and political criticism and as an innovative perspective on well-known events? How does the use of an unconventional style and structure contribute to the overall effect of the narrative?
Grades will depend on the 10,000 word seminar paper (to be handed in before the oral presentation), the brief oral presentation, participation in the discussion in class and an end-test.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

seminar; interactive

Literatur

The books discussed will include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night (featuring an autistic narrator - a text potentially interesting for class-room reading at school), Vernon God Little (about a school massacre) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (describing 9/11 through the eyes of a child).

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

322, 821, 338, 722, K 521, K 522, K531, K532

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33