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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: AM Englische Literatur: Thinking Time
Semester SoSe 2024
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 31
Heimat-Einrichtung Englische Literatur und Kultur
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Nächster Termin Montag, 06.05.2024 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: Seminarraum 2 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Voraussetzungen erfolgreich abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lernorganisation Clarke, Susanna. Piranesi. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. ISBN 1526622432
Shakespeare, William. The Winter’s Tale. Ed. Paul Edmondson. Penguin Classics, 2015. ISBN 0141396563
Please obtain this edition in favour of the usual academic preference for Arden Shakespeare Editions. The recent Third Series Arden is quite simply overpriced for undergraduates on the one hand, on the other still not easy to find. As we start with the play, consider buying your editions as soon as possible: delivery times from Britain vary greatly but have increased overall!
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. Vintage Classics, 2016.
Leistungsnachweis Referat, mündliche Prüfung (30 min.)
Studiengänge (für) LAG, LAS, LA Fö
SWS 2
ECTS-Punkte 5

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Centuries before Relativity Theory, literature has examined again and again time’s relation with space, subjectivity, and entropy. Temporality in fiction is thus a topic that easily spans genres and literary periods. We will start our readings with William Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale (1623), one of his romances perched uneasily between comedy and tragedy, and a play which puzzles critics to this day. Marvell's deservedly notorious "To His Coy Mistress" (posthumously published 1681) gives us an insight into how time could humorously oscillate between memento mori and carpe diem. Romanticism, in turn, pondered the relationship between art and temporality to similar public success, yet with highly divergent results, as John Keats’s „Ode on a Grecian Urn“ (1819) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s „Kubla Khan“ (1816) show. Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando (1928) has acquired cult status because of its gender- and time-switching, seemingly immortal protagonist, for whom, however, place is defining. We will finish our course reading by discussing Susanna Clarke’s best-selling surrealist novel Piranesi (2020). Through the protagonist's exploration of the fluid spaces of the novel, readers encounter a nonlinear sense of time in an alternate reality. The poems will be provided in Stud-IP. Please obtain the editions cited above to facilitate your participation.