General information

Course name	Seminar: Aufbaumodul Anglistik Literatur III/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft 4 (IKEAS)
Subtitle	Austen Adaptations
Semester	SS 2016
Current number of participants	7
Home institute	Englische Literatur und Kultur
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Thursday, 07.04.2016 08:15 - 09:45
Type/Form	Proseminar
Participants	Studierende ab dem 2. Semester
Pre-requisites	erfolgreich bestandenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft (BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik), erfolgreiche bestandenes Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft (IKEAS)
Learning organisation	Students will be tested on Pride and Prejudice in the second week of term – please read the novel over your semester break. A copy of the extract from Aidan’s novel will be provided. Texts: Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Ed. Kathryn Sutherland. London: Penguin Classics, 2014. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Anne Rees Jones. London: Penguin Classics, 2014. Baker, Jo. Longbourn: The Servants’ Story. London: Doubleday, 2013. Additional reading: Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge, 2006. Rose, Margaret Anne. Parody: Ancient, Modern, Postmodern. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Performance record	regelmässige Anwesenheit, Referat, Hausarbeit
Studiengänge (für)	Anglistik und Amerikanistik BA 90 IKEAS BA
SWS	2
ECTS points	5

Lecturers

Dr. Therese-Marie Meyer

Rooms and times

No room preference: Thursday: 08:15 - 09:45, weekly(14x)

Fields of study

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

Comment/Description

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813) has enjoyed not only a great following among English-speaking readers worldwide but also a boom of film and tv versions, fanfiction, parodies and other adaptations. With Pride and Prejudice and Zombies hitting the cinemas this spring, the time to consider Austen adaptations seems at hand. We will first read the novel itself and study some theories of (literary) adaptation, before we encounter Jo Baker’s Longbourn (2013), which rewrites Austen’s novel from the perspective of the Bennet family’s kitchen maid. Next we will consider a chapter from Pamela Aidan’s Duty and Desire (2004). This three-volume edition of Darcy’s view of Pride and Prejudice (Duty and Desire is the second volume) opens a great many questions on the silences and omissions of the original text. Contemporary modernizations of the novel will be addressed when we watch the Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2013), a youtube series adapting Austen’s novel as a vlog. Finally, we will address the question of Austen fandom and industry with the parody Austenland (2013), a movie that blends Pride and Prejudice with elements of Mansfield Park.