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123047 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature (2021S)

ANGELS AND DEMONS - Dialectical Victorian Constructions and Subversive (Post)-Modernist Deconstructions of Femininity in Theory and Literature

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
REMOTE
Moodle

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).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

The course will start in ONLINE mode with BBB-sessions via moodle.
If possible we will switch to ONSITE mode later this semester!

Thursday 15-16:30
Beginning: 11.03.2021

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course will familiarize students with core-terms of poststructuralist theory such as: discursive practice/constructions and deconstruction in regard to historically-specific patriarchal and feminist discourses on femininity, gender, and the body of the 19th and 20th centuries. Considering aspects of theories by Beauvoir, Gilbert & Gubar, Foucault, Kristeva, Butler, Riot Grrrl Feminism., we will explore how these can be applied to an analysis of dialectical constructions of femininity produced by master-discourses of Romanticism and Victorianism; how this dialectics was challenged by 19th cent female literary & poetic imagination and significantly subverted in modernist and postmodernist deconstructions.
Special focus will be put on the meaning of the texts in the historical, cultural and social contexts of the respective literary period. This analysis will be embedded in a discussion of related stylistic devices and narrative strategies such as: dramatic monologue, metaficiton, intertextuality, rewriting, deconstruction. Literature will be read in context of responding to changing historical, social and cultural conditions wherein literary devices become discursive tools for critical comment and reflection.
Secondary & partly primary texts will be provided on MOODLE.
There will be Topic-Sheets for oral-presentation & weekly mails with info on reading-assignments and class-organization

- Lecturer partly provides background info PPTs with accompanying AUDIO-lectures.
- topic-sheets for orientation on moodle

- Oral presentations: PPT as usual with audio-commenting
will be provided on moodle & discussed in plenum-discussions (detailed info in the first session!)
A detailed info-file on this concept will be available on Moodle.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular Attendance

Participation in Classroom Discussions

Oral Presentation

Final Written Paper Final Written Paper + Short Abstract (hand-in before students start to write the final paper)

Short Written Reflections (300 words) - NOT regularly! (amount not fixed yet - depends on students' participation in class

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students have to fulfil all course requirements

Examination topics

Students will be introduced to literary texts, media, theories (materials are provided on moodle).
Students will also be introduced to guidelines for literary analysis and criteria for conceptualizing an academic paper

Reading list

Keats, John. 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' (1819)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. 'The Blessed Damozel' (1847)
Rossetti, Christina. 'Goblin Market' (1862)
Shelley, Mary. 'Frankenstein' (1818 / 1831)
Woolf, Virginia. 'A Room of One's Own' (1928) - excerpts
'Professions for Women' (1929)
Plath, Sylvia. 'Lady Lazarus'; 'Mirror'(1965)
Duffy, Carol Anne. 'Mrs. Beast', 'Mrs Lazarus'
In: The World’s Wife (1999)
Riot Grrrl Movement - Bikini Kill Manifesto (1991)
Riot Grrrl Zines (1990s)

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612; BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: UF 3.3.3-304; BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-3041

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