120039 AR Literature Course (interactive) = Literature 1/2 (MA) British/Irish/New English (2011S)
Literature and the Great War
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 07.02.2011 00:00 to Su 20.02.2011 23:59
- Registration is open from We 23.02.2011 00:00 to Tu 01.03.2011 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Th 31.03.2011 23:59
Details
max. 30 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 08.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 15.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 22.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 29.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 05.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 12.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 03.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 10.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 17.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 24.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 31.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 07.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 21.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 28.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
: In this workshop we will examine various aspects of the First World War as represented in English Literature. We will not only consider contemperoneous texts (poetry, drama and fiction) but also works from the interwar period and the present. An analysis of these texts will offer insights into the diverse perspectives on "the war to end all wars" that have emerged over the years. In this course we will also explore the confusion of historical facts and myths engendered by the war, which literature itself promulgated, and that have become embedded in public awareness.
Assessment and permitted materials
Regular attendance, oral presentation, active participation in class discussions, final essay.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Introduce students to an important body of work relating to the most traumatic war in British memory. The course will also foreground the goals of poetry, drama and narrative in this domain, and the specific literary strategies by which they are attained.
Examination topics
Introduction to the political and historical context, survey of the myths of the Great War, students' presentations, class discussions.
Reading list
The texts analysed will include poems by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling and Ernest Hemingway, plays by W. Somerset Maugham and R. C. Sherriff, and novels by William Boyd and Pat Barker.
Association in the course directory
Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, MA 844;
Code/Modul: 323-325, 325, 326/328, 336/338, 721-723, MA4, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0317
Code/Modul: 323-325, 325, 326/328, 336/338, 721-723, MA4, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0317
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