130199 PS Literarische Wechselbeziehungen (PS): European Modernism and Beyond (2012W)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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persönliche Anmeldung am 20. und 21. September 9 bis 12 Uhr, 24. und 25. September 15 bis 17 Uhr in der Sensengasse
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max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
Dienstag
09.10.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
16.10.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
23.10.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
30.10.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
06.11.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
13.11.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
20.11.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
27.11.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
04.12.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
11.12.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
18.12.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
08.01.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
15.01.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Dienstag
22.01.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
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29.01.
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
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Assessment : Participation (20%), oral presentation (20%), argumentative essay, 10-12 pages (60%)
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Goals:
*) identify, analyse and understand key philosophical, historical , social and aesthetic issues of the modernist literary movement
*) analyse key modernist literary works in terms of their social, historical, philosophical, and aesthetic significance
*) apply close reading skills to a variety of literary texts
*) reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts
*) discriminate between ideas and define personal positions and justify them intellectually
*) produce well-structured, relevant arguments with an appropriate
intellectual framework
*) identify, analyse and understand key philosophical, historical , social and aesthetic issues of the modernist literary movement
*) analyse key modernist literary works in terms of their social, historical, philosophical, and aesthetic significance
*) apply close reading skills to a variety of literary texts
*) reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts
*) discriminate between ideas and define personal positions and justify them intellectually
*) produce well-structured, relevant arguments with an appropriate
intellectual framework
Prüfungsstoff
Literatur
Primary texts: see weekly scheduleSecondary texts: Jeff Wallace, Beginning Modernism (Manchester University Press, 2011)
Secondary source bibliography to be providedWeekly schedule:Week 1: Introduction to modernist ideas (October 9)
(Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzche, Carl Gustav Jung, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Marx)Week 2: Introduction to the ideas of Sigmund Freud (October 16)
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) - extractWeek 3: Franz Kafka and Sigmund Freud (October 23
Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis, 1912)Week 4: Freud and female sexuality (October 30)
Sigmund Freud, "Dora" (Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria) (1905)Week 5: Arthur Schnitzler and Sigmund Freud (November 6)
Arthur Schnitzler, Fräulein Else (1924)Week 6: Katherine Mansfield, modernism and socialism (November 13)
Katherine Mansfield, short stories (1911-1923)Week 7: Virginia Woolf and modernist fiction (November 20)
Virginia Woolf, "Modern Fiction" (1919)Week 8: Virginia Woolf, Freud and modernism (November 27)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) extractWeek 9: Virginia Woolf, Freud and modernism (December 4)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) - extractWeek 10: James Joyce, Freud and the suffering artist (December 11)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - extractWeek 11: James Joyce, Freud and the suffering artist (December 18)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - extractCHRISTMAS HOLIDAYSWeek 12: British colonialism, modernism and modernity (January 8)
Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger (1978)Week 13: The African Writer and European literature (January 15)
Dambudzo Marechera, "The African Writer’s Experience of European Literature" (1986)Week 14: Conclusion (January 22)
Secondary source bibliography to be providedWeekly schedule:Week 1: Introduction to modernist ideas (October 9)
(Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzche, Carl Gustav Jung, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Marx)Week 2: Introduction to the ideas of Sigmund Freud (October 16)
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) - extractWeek 3: Franz Kafka and Sigmund Freud (October 23
Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis, 1912)Week 4: Freud and female sexuality (October 30)
Sigmund Freud, "Dora" (Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria) (1905)Week 5: Arthur Schnitzler and Sigmund Freud (November 6)
Arthur Schnitzler, Fräulein Else (1924)Week 6: Katherine Mansfield, modernism and socialism (November 13)
Katherine Mansfield, short stories (1911-1923)Week 7: Virginia Woolf and modernist fiction (November 20)
Virginia Woolf, "Modern Fiction" (1919)Week 8: Virginia Woolf, Freud and modernism (November 27)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) extractWeek 9: Virginia Woolf, Freud and modernism (December 4)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) - extractWeek 10: James Joyce, Freud and the suffering artist (December 11)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - extractWeek 11: James Joyce, Freud and the suffering artist (December 18)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) - extractCHRISTMAS HOLIDAYSWeek 12: British colonialism, modernism and modernity (January 8)
Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger (1978)Week 13: The African Writer and European literature (January 15)
Dambudzo Marechera, "The African Writer’s Experience of European Literature" (1986)Week 14: Conclusion (January 22)
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Diplomstudium VL 131
BA M4
BA M4
Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:34
Modernism in European literature arises from historical events that abruptly changed our perception of reality and ourselves. These include Darwin’s discovery of the origin of species, rapid urbanisation, scientific discoveries and technological revolution, Freud’s theory of the unconscious, colonialism and World War I. All of these events destroyed previous beliefs in reality as objectively knowable, human beings as primarily rational, and the existence of a universal ethics that can be discovered though the use of reason. The modern experience subverts Enlightenment rationalism, 19th century positivism, the belief in social stability and bourgeois morality. The uncertainty, angst, despair, and exhillaration of the modern experience are reflected in new ways of writing literature that aim to bring us closer to the lived experience.
This seminar will analyze various manifestations of modernism in literature. Starting from Vienna as the epicenter of modernist ideas, we will focus on the influence of Freud on the Viennese authors Arthur Schnitzler and Franz Kafka. We will then compare Viennese modernism to English modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and James Joyce. Finally, we will explore the manifestation of modernism in the colonial space, analyzing modernist aesthetics in the work of the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera. Rather than understanding modernism as a merely European phenomenon, modernism will be analyzed as a transcontinental movement that reflected the experience of a changing world as a result of colonization, transculturation and the breaking with tradition.