Seminar: AM Anglistik Literatur II: Writing back - Details

Allgemeine Informationen

Veranstaltungsname	Seminar: AM Anglistik Literatur II: Writing back
Untertitel	Novels responding to other novels
Semester	SoSe 2024
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	11
Heimat-Einrichtung	Englische Literatur und Kultur
Veranstaltungstyp	Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin	Donnerstag, 04.04.2024 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: Seminarraum 2 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Voraussetzungen	erfolgreich bestandenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lernorganisation	Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Vivien Jones. Penguin Classics, 2003. Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Margaret Smith. Oxford World’s Classics, 2019. Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones’s Diary. Picador, 2014. Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. Norton Critical Editions. Ed. Judith L. Raiskin. Norton, 1998.
Leistungsnachweis	Referat (und eventuell Hausarbeit) im Modulteil
Studiengänge (für)	BA 90
SWS	2 von 4
ECTS-Punkte	5

Lehrende

• Dr. Therese-Marie Meyer

Räume und Zeiten

Seminarraum 2 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)

Donnerstag: 10:15 - 11:45, wöchentlich (13x)

Studienbereiche

• Philosophische Fakultät II - Philologien, Kommunikations- und Musikwissenschaften > Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Anglistik/Literaturwissenschaft

Modulzuordnungen

• Amerikanistik/Amerikakunde Anglistik/Amerikan.60, Akkreditierungsfassung gültig ab WS 2015/16 > Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik > ANG.04692.03 - Aufbaumodul: Anglistik Literatur II, gültig ab WS 2013/14 > LV 1: Seminar (Seminar 1)
• Amerikanistik/Amerikakunde Anglistik/Amerikan.90, Akkreditierungsfassung gültig ab WS 2015/16 > Pflichtmodule > ANG.04692.03 - Aufbaumodul: Anglistik Literatur II, gültig ab WS 2013/14 > LV 1: Seminar (Seminar 1)
• Amerikanistik/Amerikakunde Anglistik/Amerikan.90, Akkreditierungsfassung (WS 2013/14 - SS 2015) > Pflichtmodule > ANG.04692.03 - Aufbaumodul: Anglistik Literatur II, gültig ab WS 2013/14 > LV 1: Seminar (Seminar 1)
• Amerikanistik/Amerikakunde Anglistik/Amerikan.60, Akkreditierungsfassung (WS 2013/14 - SS 2015) > Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik > ANG.04692.03 - Aufbaumodul: Anglistik Literatur II, gültig ab WS 2013/14 > LV 1: Seminar (Seminar 1)

Kommentar/Beschreibung

This seminar is a part of the AM Anglistik Literatur II (4 SWS).
In the dynamic interplay between canonical and contemporary women's narratives, novels responding to earlier novels often use especially iconic texts as a springboard for reinvention and criticism. We will consider two very famous such intertextual pairings: Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen, and its modern counterpart Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) by Helen Fielding; as well as Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë, and its postcolonial response Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) by Jean Rhys. With more than 1800 current variations published of the courtship between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy since the BBC series of 1995 starring Colin Firth created a Pride and Prejudice phenomenon, chosing just one contemporary version is difficult. Yet Bridget Jones‘s Diary managed to represent its own complex interpretation of romance, female agency and social satire, and resonated deeply with a global female readership, spawning in turn a very successful 2001 film adaptation. It also allowed later variations that engaged with the original text in more modern or even fantastic forms to emerge, as Fielding both played with and subverted literary tradition. Jane Eyre features regularly in English readers‘ favourite novel lists, showing that Brontë's exploration of female agency, emotional growth, and independence continue to have a great impact on contemporary readers. Here, too, countless costume drama versions attest to the novel’s ongoing popularity as generations of readers and viewers re-discovers the text anew. Rhys's post-colonial reimagining of the iconic "madwoman in the attic" exposes silenced features of the original novel and continues to question Britain’s self-complacent (neo-)Victorian navel-gazing. We'll examine themes of female and male identity, power, and representation in imperialism. By tracing the echoes and resonances between these pairs of novels, we will gain insights into an ongoing dialogue between past and present in women's writings about women. Please obtain the above editions to ensure your participation. Austenites welcome! :)