120043 AR Literature Course (Interactive ) 325 = Literature 1/2 (MA) (British/Irish/New English Literatures) (2009S)
Re-writing Jane Eyre
Continuous assessment of course work
Labels
Diese LVA gilt für das Masterstudium Anglophone Literatures and Cultures nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).
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 16.02.2009 14:00 to Mo 23.02.2009 09:00
- Registration is open from We 25.02.2009 14:00 to We 04.03.2009 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.03.2009 23:59
Details
max. 30 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Thursday 19.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 26.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 02.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 23.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 30.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 07.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 14.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 28.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 04.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 18.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Thursday 25.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Ever since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has held readers spellbound. Today, it is not only revered as a Victorian classic but has become a common property within British culture, acquiring not only the status of a myth but also its ability to be constantly re-written and re-invented. Evidently, the text still adresses psychological needs and romantic ideals in our modern culture. It has received interpretations from all critical schools but has exerted a challenge to successive generations of creative writers as well. Few literary works have been so often re-assembled, re-imagined, re-written as Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. The new adaptations and revisions in turn variously interact with one another, interveave the hypotext with later rewritings and take up suggestions from Bronte scholarship. In the class we will discuss and compare some of these novels, dramas and films and relate these new versions to the time of their production and to suggestions made by various critical interpretations of the novel.
Assessment and permitted materials
Students are expected to give an oral presentation, to participate in the discussions in class and to write a paper on one adaptation of their choice.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The class will provide a survey of modern responses to the canonical text ranging from feminist or post-colonial revisions to film adaptations. We will also try to account for the continued popularity of Jane Eyre and the different responses to the novel in the course of time.
Examination topics
interactive; oral presentations and discussions in class; written essay
Reading list
Texts to be discussed will include, among others, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Polly Teale's drama adaptation Jane Eyre and films directed by Stevenson, Zefirelli and Young.. A complete list will be posted. The literary texts will be ordered in Facultas bookshop on campus; the movies and critical articles are available in the department library. Students planning to attend the workshop should read Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, since we will start with a detailed analysis of the novel.
Association in the course directory
325, 326, 328, 336, 338, 722, 3031, 3032
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