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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Aufbaumodul Englische Literatur
Untertitel Adolescents spell trouble: Generational conflicts in fiction
Semester SS 2016
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 9
Heimat-Einrichtung Englische Literatur und Kultur
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Montag, 04.04.2016 10:15 - 11:45
Art/Form Proseminar
Teilnehmende Studierende ab dem 2. Semester
Voraussetzungen erfolgreich bestandenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lernorganisation Please obtain the primary texts listed below; students need to have read the Arden edition of Romeo and Juliet by the second week of the term. The first Cantos of Don Juan will be available in a reader on Stud-IP for download. Freakangels is available as a free online comic at www. freakangels.com. Primary text knowledge will be tested in this course.

Texts:
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Ed. René Weis. The Arden Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2012.
Wyndham, John. The Midwich Cuckoos. London: Penguin, 2008.

Additional reading:
Schneider, Jost. Einführung in die Roman-Analyse. Darmstadt: WBG, 2009.
Scherer, Stefan. Einführung in die Dramen-Analyse. Darmstadt: WBG, 2013.
Ludwig, Hans-Werner. Arbeitsbuch Lyrikanalyse. Tübingen: Narr, 2005.
McCloud, Scott. Understanding Comics: The invisible art. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.
Leistungsnachweis Course requirements are regular attendance, active participation in discussions, one oral presentation, and a final oral exam.
Studiengänge (für) LAG, LAS, LA Förderschule
SWS 2
ECTS-Punkte 5

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Montag: 10:15 - 11:45, wöchentlich(14x)

Kommentar/Beschreibung

Representations of puberty and adolescence in English literature across the centuries have shown a surprising stability when it comes to addressing issues that the parental generation finds problematic. Passionate intensity and stubbornness in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (1597) seem to admirably embody idealism – until the young lovers die, leaving a mourning city in their wake. Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of the classic play comments on the dangers of such adolescent intensity when it is endowed with guns, as much as it depicts the cynicism of the media that exploits these situations. To Lord Byron, this very intensity of adolescent sentiment could also create a willing victim: his Juan fancies himself in love with a much older Julia, who is, however, only looking for a way to pay back her husband for years of marital neglect. Yet when the devil himself is the narrator, what teachings can readers expect to take away from Don Juan (1819)? Following World War II, many texts show adolescents that embody a threat to civilisation. John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) uses the very blandness and inscrutability of rural English adolescence as his starting point for a science fiction horror novel, in which society has to mercilessly cull its own youngsters to survive. Warren Ellis in turn takes Wyndham’s novel as the starting point for his graphic novel, Freakangels (2008), in which a post-apocalyptic London becomes the playground for the teenage anarchy of the Midwich Cuckoos.