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123223 SE Literature Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English (2015S)

Literary Experiment

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

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Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 11.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 18.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 25.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 15.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 22.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 29.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 06.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 13.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 20.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 27.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 03.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 10.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 17.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Wednesday 24.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Art abides by its own rules and conventions. Thus, an important yardstick for evaluating aesthetic excellence has been the question whether or not in a given text an author has been able to create something new within the narrow confines of generic convention. There has always been an alternative tradition of 'anti-texts', however, which defy the dictate of convention and make rule-breaking their central concern. This course focusses on the non-conforming, the non-conventional and the disruptive. During the next fourteen weeks we will be exploring the aesthetics of texts which stretch the linguistic medium to its very limits, routinely treading the delicate line where the difficult turns into the incomprehensible. In this course, we will look at stories, poems and plays which are excessively static or repetitive, show ontological frame-breaking or a contradictory chronology, construct radically mutable characters or present multiple and/or irreducibly incompatible versions of story events. Experimental texts may sport radically deviant features in their material make-up (such as books with loose pages or holes in them) or attempt to create a intermedial hybrid by merging the linguistic medium with music or the visual arts. Studying radical transgression will bring basic epistemological and generic conventions into focus and will challenge our perception of what is 'realistic' and 'natural'.

Assessment and permitted materials

Assessment will be on the basis of attendance, active participation, small assignments, presentations, mini-exams, and a seminar paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

eLearning, group work, lecture, audio- and video-excerpts, classroom discussion, student presentation, home study, mini-exam, seminar paper

Reading list

Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67)
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
Virginia Woolf, Selected Short Stories
Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
Robert Coover, "The Babysitter" (1969)
John Barth, "Lost in the Funhouse" (1968)
Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound (1968)
Tom Phillips, A Humument (1970ff.)
Gabriel Josipovici, "Moebius the Stripper" (1974)
Caryl Churchill, Traps (1978)
Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine (1988)
Russell Hoban, "The Man with the Dagger" (1990)
Martin Amis, Time's Arrow (1991)
Martin Crimp, Attempts on Her Life (1997)
Lydia Davis, Short Stories
Tom Mc Carthy, Remainder (2005)
Graham Rawle, A Woman's World (2006)
Avant-Garde Poetry
Experimental Children's Literature

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, MA 844;
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-322, BA10.2, MA4,
Lehrinhalt: 12-0374

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