123210 VO Literatures in English (2014W)

Race in English Literature

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

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Details

Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Donnerstag 29.01.2015 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4 Donnerstag 05.03.2015 09:30 - 11:15 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21 Dienstag 28.04.2015 18:30 - 20:15 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03 Mittwoch 24.06.2015 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03

Lehrende

Margarete Rubik

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

    
    Donnerstag
    09.10.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    16.10.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    23.10.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    30.10.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    06.11.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    13.11.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    20.11.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    27.11.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    04.12.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    11.12.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    18.12.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    08.01.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    15.01.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
    
    Donnerstag
    22.01.
    09:45 - 11:15
    Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Issues of race and racism in canonical texts have long been of particular interest in the scholarly community. It is both problematic and challenging to read Elizabethan, Restoration, 18th century and Victorian texts from a modern postcolonial perspective, because 16th and 17th century concepts of race differed widely from our modern understanding of the issue.
The lecture will survey the development of racist ideas and their possible origin and will look at a variety of literary texts (plays, poems, fiction), from the time of Shakespeare to the end of the 19th century, in which Africans (or "moors") are described. We will investigate stereotypes of representation and the way in which writers both questioned and reinforced such clichés and participated in their culture's discourse about self and the other.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Assessment will be on the basis of a written final test. Students are expected to study all the texts on the reading list.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The course will survey changing attitudes to foreign ethnicities in texts from the 17th to the end of the 19th century. We will analyze some of the stereotypes of xenophobic discourse and the stylistic means by which prejudices were mediated by means of action, characters and style, but also how they could be questioned and re-interpreted.

Prüfungsstoff

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Literatur

Among the texts discussed will be W. Shakespeare: Othello, A. Behn: Oroonoko, H. Beecher-Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, H. Rider-Haggard: King Solomon's Mines and J. Conrad: Heart of Darkness. These texts have been ordered at Facultas bookstore on campus. In addition, a short reader with brief excerpts from various texts will be compiled.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, ME 812, MA 844;
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-321, ME1, MA1
Lehrinhalt: 12-0404

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22