135112 SE Bachelor Seminar: Unfinished. Fragmentary Works of World Literature (2020S)
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Beginn 12.3. (Achtung: Rektorstag; Teilnahme freundlich empfohlen)
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 Sa 01.02.2020 00:01 to Sa 22.02.2020 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Th 30.04.2020 23:59
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max. 30 participants
Language: German
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Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Beginn 12.3. (Achtung: Rektorstag; Teilnahme freundlich empfohlen)
- Thursday 12.03. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 19.03. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 26.03. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 02.04. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 23.04. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 30.04. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 07.05. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 14.05. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 28.05. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 04.06. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 18.06. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Thursday 25.06. 09:30 - 11:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Major works of world literature remained unfinished and still puzzle audiences and literary scholars today, e.g. Gottfried von Strasbourg's ‘Tristan’, Francesco Petrarch's epic ‘Africa’ or Edmund Spenser's ‘The Faerie Queene’, romantic novels such as Ludwig Tieck's ‘Franz Sternbald's Wanderings’ and ‘The Revolt in the Cévennes’ or Dorothea Schlegel's ‘Florentin’, S. T. Coleridge's poem ‘Kublai Khan’, Flaubert's novel ‘Bouvard et Pécuchet’ and Charles Dickens' famous last novel “The Mystery of Edwin Droodod”. T. Coleridge's poem ‘Kublai Khan’, Flaubert's novel ‘Bouvard et Pécuchet’ and Charles Dickens' famous last novel “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”. But great novel projects also failed in the 20th century, or remained (apparently) unfinished: Marcel Proust's ‘Jean Santeuil’, Robert Musil's ‘The Man without Qualities’, Hans Henny Jahnn's ‘River without Shore’, the three great Kafka fragments ‘The Trial’, ‘The Castle’ and ‘America’ (‘The Stoker’), Thomas Mann's ‘Felix Krull’ (?), Ingeborg Bachmann's ‘Death Species’ project or Heimito von Doderer's ‘The Border Forest’. The seminar will discuss questions of holistic vs. fragmentary aesthetics on the basis of an exemplary selection and attempt to describe how philology and the reading public deal with large fragments of world literature.
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BA M11
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