Seminar: Aufbaumodul Anglistik Literatur II: British literature and the Balkans - Details

Seminar: Aufbaumodul Anglistik Literatur II: British literature and the Balkans - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Aufbaumodul Anglistik Literatur II: British literature and the Balkans
Semester WiSe 2024/25
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 17
Heimat-Einrichtung Englische Literatur und Kultur
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Donnerstag, 10.10.2024 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: Seminarraum 2 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Teilnehmende BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik Studierende (wahlobl.)
Voraussetzungen erfolgreich bestandenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lernorganisation Byron's poem is available on loan in the Internet Archive here, in our edition: https://archive.org/details/threeorientaltal00fran/page/n5/mode/2up
Or you can buy this very same edition: Richardson, Alan (ed.). Three Oriental Tales. New Riverside Editions. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. ISBN 0618107312
Please read ONLY this edition's version of the text, as "The Giaour" was historically published in four different editions, each one progressively longer, and other editors/publications have used other versions for their texts! Additionally, Richardson's "Introduction" to Orientalism from this volume will be obligatory reading in class.
A similar situation applies to Stoker's novel which has more editions than you can poke a stick at. We will use this one:
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Penguin Classics. ed. Maurice Hindle. Penguin Books, 2003. ISBN 13: 978-0-141-43984-6
McGuinness and Mieville are less of a problem. These are the recommended editions - in the case of McGuiness the only edition. It matters little which Mieville edition you obtain: the texts are identical.
Mieville, China. The City and the City. Pan Books, 2009. ISBN 978-0-330-53419-2
McGuinness, Patrick. The Last Hundred Days: A Novel. Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 2011038760
Leistungsnachweis erfolgreiche Tests zu den Primärtexten
Referat
schriftliche Hausarbeit
Studiengänge (für) BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik (90)
SWS 2 von 4
ECTS-Punkte 5

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Kommentar/Beschreibung

The role of British literature in producing the cultural image of the Balkans - oriental, mysterious, corrupt, dangerous, tribal, seductive - is considerable: British literary engagement with Southeast Europe goes back more than two hundred years. This course reads just a few of many such texts, beginning with Byron's first Orientalist tale, "The Giaour" (1813-1820), a Romantic fragment and verse epic, whose success established the region firmly in the British imaginary and defined many of its tropes. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (1897) drew on Byron's gothic and vampiric precedents, and was so successful in turn that it became a global cultural icon. Twentieth-century Communist rule cast a chilly shadow over some of the countries (Bulgaria, Romania and the former Yugoslavia) that were seen - or not seen - as part of the Balkans: MacGuiness's novel "The Last Hundred Days" (2009) deals with the aftermath of the Romanian revolution, as witnessed by a nameless British protagonist in Bucharest. Finally, Miéville has created a unique alternate reality novel, "The City and the City" (2009), a police procedural in which his protagonist tries to solve the murder of an American exchange student in a surreal Balkan city. Please make sure you read the EXACT editions listed above as texts are available in different versions - and you may end up not having the one we use in the course!