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127012 KO Critical Readings in Literature (2017S)

London Fictions, from Dickens to Zadie Smith (B)

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

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Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 10.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 17.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 24.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 31.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 07.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 28.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 05.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 12.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 19.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 26.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 02.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 09.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 16.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 23.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Friday 30.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

There are many Londons. Through the pages of fiction this course lets you explore some of them. By engaging in critical reading the course examines the different ways that the places and peoples of London have been imagined, by writers from the Victorian period to the Post-Millennial era. Over ten weeks we will examine five very different novels using different critical frameworks that include: Victorian serial fiction, fin de siècle gothic, modernism, postcolonialism and post-Millennial contemporary fiction. The set texts include (in this order): "Oliver Twist", "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde", "Mrs Dalloway", "Lonely Londoners" and "NW". Weekly classes will alternative between lecture and discussion-led contexts to student-led close readings of the texts.

Assessment and permitted materials

tba

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

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Examination topics

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Reading list

Charles Dickens, "Oliver Twist"
Robert Louis Stevenson, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde"
Virginia Woolf, "Mrs Dalloway"
Samuel Selvon, "Lonely Londoners"
Zadie Smith, "NW"

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612; BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: BA08.3; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3000

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