123421 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English (2021W)
The Marriage Plot from Charlotte Bronte to 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'
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 We 01.09.2021 00:00 to We 15.09.2021 11:59
- Deregistration possible until Su 31.10.2021 23:59
Details
max. 18 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
*NB*
Update 22.11.2021: Until further notice, all classes will be held exclusively ONLINE.
- Friday 08.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 15.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 22.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 29.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 05.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 12.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 19.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 26.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 03.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 10.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 17.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 07.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 14.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 21.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
- Friday 28.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
From its heyday in the eighteenth and nineteenth century to contemporary Hollywood rom-coms and other pop cultural texts, the marriage, courtship, and/or romance plot has become a staple of storytelling.This interactive seminar casts a close and critical look at (successful and 'failed') marriage and courtship plots across genres, periods, and media. Special emphasis will be placed on the implicit ideologies and grand narratives, as well as exclusionary practices that this quintessentially bourgeouis genre has historically entailed and, to some extent, still entails. The course will have a chronological trajectory from Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" (1947) and its postcolonial rewriting (Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea") to late-Victorian and modernist parodies of marriage conventions (Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" (1895) and its star-studded Hollywood adaptation (2002); excerpts from Virginia Woolf's "Orlando") and contemporary takes on and subversions of this genre in popular culture (examples will be finalised during the first session, based on input from participants but may, for example, include episodes from "How I Met Your Mother", "Fleabag", "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend", reality-TV series "The Bachelor"/"The Bachelorette" etc.).Discussion topics in this course may include: historical and contemporary cultural contexts of the marriage plot and its (often implicit) biases and ideologies; feminist, postcolonial, and queer readings, critiques, and rewritings; the idea of "OTP" (one true pairing) and alternative rewritings in the context of fandom and participatory culture; etc.
Assessment and permitted materials
Assessment will be based on three key aspects of this course:- active participation (i.e. discussions during synchronous classes, peer feedback, asynchronous forum discussions, etc.), including smaller tasks (e.g. bibliography assignment)- abstract (250 words) based on the topic of your final term paper- presentation (15-20 minutes + discussion) based on the topic of your final term paper- final term paper (6,000-8,000 words)/BA thesis (8,000-10,000 words); grading criteria will be presented and discussed in detail and are based on the guidelines outlined here (Specifications -> Assessment criteria): https://spl-anglistik.univie.ac.at/study/
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
- active participation: 20 points
- abstract (15 points) and presentation (15 points) based on the topic of your term paper
- final paper/BA paper: 50 pointsStudents have to fulfill all course requirements (each with at least 50%) and to score at least 60 points altogether to pass this course.*Grading scale*:
1: 90-100 points
2: 81-89 points
3: 70-80 points
4: 60-69 points
5: 0-59 points
- abstract (15 points) and presentation (15 points) based on the topic of your term paper
- final paper/BA paper: 50 pointsStudents have to fulfill all course requirements (each with at least 50%) and to score at least 60 points altogether to pass this course.*Grading scale*:
1: 90-100 points
2: 81-89 points
3: 70-80 points
4: 60-69 points
5: 0-59 points
Examination topics
This is an interactive course with continuous assessment ("prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung"). Students are expected to come to class prepared (i.e. have read all required texts and familiarised themselves with all the required materials covered in class, done additional research if necessary) and complete all tasks on time.There will be no written final exam.
Reading list
*Required Reading (in full):*- Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre"
- Jean Rhys, "Wide Sargasso Sea"
- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"Please (re-)familiarise yourselves with the plot, style, and key themes of (or ideally read in full): Jane Austen's "Emma"; Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (in particular, the Estella/Pip and Miss Havisham plots) and/or Virginia Woolf's "Orlando".*Required viewing (in full)*
- The Importance of Being Earnest (2002, dir. Oliver Parker)
- further films/episodes from TV series tbaTheoretical and secondary texts will made available/linked to via u:access on Moodle and will include individual articles as well as excerpts from key publications, e.g. Barry McCrea, "In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust", Rachel Blau DuPlessis, "Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers"A complete list of materials (and instructions on how to access them) will be provided in the first session. The eLearning platform Moodle will be used in this course; the abstract and the term paper will be run through the plagiarism software TurnItIn.
- Jean Rhys, "Wide Sargasso Sea"
- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"Please (re-)familiarise yourselves with the plot, style, and key themes of (or ideally read in full): Jane Austen's "Emma"; Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" (in particular, the Estella/Pip and Miss Havisham plots) and/or Virginia Woolf's "Orlando".*Required viewing (in full)*
- The Importance of Being Earnest (2002, dir. Oliver Parker)
- further films/episodes from TV series tbaTheoretical and secondary texts will made available/linked to via u:access on Moodle and will include individual articles as well as excerpts from key publications, e.g. Barry McCrea, "In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust", Rachel Blau DuPlessis, "Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers"A complete list of materials (and instructions on how to access them) will be provided in the first session. The eLearning platform Moodle will be used in this course; the abstract and the term paper will be run through the plagiarism software TurnItIn.
Association in the course directory
Studium: BA 612, MA 844; MA 844(2)
Code/Modul: BA09.2, 10.2, MA4, MA6, MA7; MA 4.1, 4.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-0388
Code/Modul: BA09.2, 10.2, MA4, MA6, MA7; MA 4.1, 4.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-0388
Last modified: We 24.11.2021 05:08