Universität Wien

123044 PS Proseminar Literature / Literary Studies (2015S)

Literary Trauma

5.00 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. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Mittwoch 11.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 18.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 25.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 15.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 22.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 29.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 06.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 13.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 20.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 27.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 03.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 10.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 17.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Mittwoch 24.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Whether private or public, personal or political, trauma is a complex experience that always affects our psyches, our bodies, but also the way in which we inhabit the present, space, and the polis at large. In this course, we will investigate language´s capacity to articulate pain, the narrative strategies employed by writers to communicate what since the 1990s has been theorised as enigmatically ‘aporetic’, ‘unspeakable’, and ‘unrepresentable’. We will address difficult questions of memory and forgetting, of life and death, as well as the potential for renewal, horizons of hope, and futurity. Within this context, we will read key theoretical texts by Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, Viktor Frankl, Shoshana Felman, Giorgio Agamben and Dori Laub.
If critics have mostly read this phenomenon symptomatically, that is mainly through the rubric of language – thereby always foregrounding questions of ethics and representation –, in this class, we will put to the test other rubrics of trauma such as time, affect, space and embark on more phenomenological modes of reading – new critical pedagogies through which we will attempt to grasp and imagine what has been deemed unbearable and unthinkable.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Class participation, weekly written assignments, mid-term paper, end-term paper & final written test.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students will become familiar with basic skills required to analyse and interpret different literary genres (poems, short stories, novels and plays). They will also learn how to write academic papers.

Prüfungsstoff

interactive, small-group and classroom discussions, reading assignments, and close-reading of texts.

Literatur

Copies of the following books will be available at the bookshop Facultas am Campus:

Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway. 1925. London: Penguin, 2000.
Gail Jones. Sorry. London: Vintage, 2008.
Michael Ondaatje. In the Skin of a Lion. London: Picador, 1988.

A reader containing further primary and secondary material will be available at the CopyStudio Schwarzspanierstraße at the beginning of term.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, BA 612; BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 3.3.3-304, BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-3041

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33