Seminar: Aufbaumodul Anglistik Literatur II: Power and Authority - Details

Seminar: Aufbaumodul Anglistik Literatur II: Power and Authority - Details

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Course name Seminar: Aufbaumodul Anglistik Literatur II: Power and Authority
Semester WiSe 2024/25
Current number of participants 9
Home institute Englische Literatur und Kultur
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Monday, 07.10.2024 08:15 - 09:45, Room: Seminarraum 2 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Participants BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Pre-requisites erfolgreich bestandenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Learning organisation Shakespeare, William. King Richard III. ed. James R. Siemon. The Arden Shakespeare Third Series, 2009.
Salgado, Gamini (ed.). Three Restoration Comedies. Penguin, 1986.
Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion and Other Plays. Macmillan's Collectors' Library. Foreword Judi Dench. 2021.
You can loan Walcott's play in the following edition from the Internet Archive:
Branch, William B. (ed.). Crosswinds: An Anthology of Black Dramatists in the Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
https://archive.org/details/crosswinds00will/page/n447/mode/2up
A Kindle edition of the play is available on Amazon in a two-play collection made available by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014: Walcott, Rememberance and Pantomime.
Performance record erfolgreiche Tests zur Primärtexten
Referat
Hausarbeit
Studiengänge (für) BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik (90), wahlobl.
SWS 2 von 4
ECTS points 5

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Plays have presented power struggles on the stage seemingly forever, yet what power is engaged with what other power over which stakes is a question at the heart of cultural and literary history. Our course will examine different forms of power struggles in different literary periods, beginning with Shakespeare’s tragedy Richard III (1592) and its propagandistic balance between tyranny, political legitimacy and moral law. Congreve’s late Restoration comedy, "Love for Love" (1695) considers the Battle of the Sexes as a playground of powers, while George Bernard Shaw’s domestic comedy "Major Barbara" (1905) satirises the late Victorian power balance in courtship and marriage. We will finish with Derek Walcott’s scathing modernist satire Pantomime (1978), which considers post-colonial Caribbean powerplays of race and suppression.