Universität Wien

120021 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA-Arbeit / MA British/Irish/New English (2010W)

Impossible Texts

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

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 18 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Montag 11.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 18.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 25.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 08.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 15.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 22.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 29.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 06.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 13.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 10.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 17.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 24.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Montag 31.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course deals with texts which attempt the impossible: stories that narrate the unnarratable, films that show what cannot be shown. Anti-texts subvert aesthetic conventions and defy the most basic laws of physics, biology and human cognition. In this course, we will look at stories, plays and films which are excessively static or repetitive, show ontological framebreaking or a contradictory chronology, construct radically mutable characters or present irreducibly incompatible versions of story events. Studying radical narrative transgression will bring basic epistemological and generic conventions into focus and will challenge our perception of what is 'natural' and 'real'. In a final section we will consider 'existential denarration' (i.e. the destruction of narrative identity caused by haphazard information disseminated in extended media coverage) as a typical end-of-millenium phenomenon.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Assessment will be on the basis of attendance, active participation, small assignments, an oral presentation, a short written exam, and a seminar paper.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

This course aims at a) discussing gapping, naturalisation, framebreaking and defamiliarisation as major aesthetic tools b) demonstrating these concepts' wider social relevance c) teaching a topic-related analytical toolkit d) enabling students to apply their knowledge and skills in their own projects e) alerting students to related issues such as possible worlds theory, cognitive narratology, immersion, meta-reference and postmodernist aesthetics and philosophy.

Prüfungsstoff

Lecture, group work, eLearning, classroom discussion, audio- and video-excerpts, small assignments, student presentations, home study, seminar paper.

Literatur

A reader with extracts from non-fictional sources and shorter literary texts will be provided. Powerpoint-presentations can be downloaded from the eLearning platform. Copies of the longer texts presented during the term will be available from one of the campus bookshops. There will be several screenings throughout the term.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612, MA 844;
Code/Modul: 322, 326/328, 336/338, 426/428, 436/438, 526/528, 536/538, 721-723, 821, BA12, BA14, MA4, MA6, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0265

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33