Inhalt
| Kurzkommentar |
Registration Period: 19.02.2018 - 04.03.2018 (WUSEL)
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| Kommentar |
In October 2017, the Canadian author Margaret Atwood was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. When explaining their choice, the Board of Trustees especially emphasized the socio-political relevance of Atwood’s work, which exhibits "a keen political intuition and a deeply perceptive ability to detect dangerous and underlying developments and tendencies" in our contemporary world.[1] In this seminar, we will explore the various political, social, ethical, and ecological issues Atwood addresses in her speculative fictions by particularly focusing on themes such as totalitarianism, gender discrimination, bio-engineering, and anthropogenic climate change. Reading Atwood's novels The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003) as examples of the dystopian genre, we will discuss how narrative fiction may serve not only as a model of, but also as a model for reality (Brian McHale). To do so, we will analyze and interpret both narratives from different theoretical perspectives, including, among others, genre theory, narratology, gender studies, and ecocriticism.
[1] https://www.friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de/445941/?mid=1341218
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| Literatur |
Students will have to buy and read the following editions of the two novels:
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale, Vintage 2016 (ISBN 978-1-784-87096-6).
Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake, Virago 2013 (ISBN 978-0-349-00406-8) |
| Bemerkung |
Participants are expected to be thoroughly familiar with the core concepts and terminologies of narrative theory (as provided by the CI Introduction to English and American literature; please re-read the narrative section in the textbook). Besides, participants are required to have read both novels by the first meeting of this course.
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| Voraussetzungen |
PO 2015: Completion of Module CI (10CP)
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| Leistungsnachweis |
Unbenotete Studienleistung (2 LP): Intensive Auseinandersetzung mit der von der Lehrperson benannten Primär- und Sekundärliteratur, nachgewiesen durch aktive und regelmäßige Mitarbeit (z.B. kleinere schriftliche Aufgaben, Arbeitsgruppen, Impulsreferate oder Präsentationen) in der Lehrveranstaltung oder durch von der Lehrperson festzulegende Ersatzleistungen wie z.B. Klausur, schriftliche Ausarbeitung oder mündliche Prüfung.
Leistungsbescheinigung: Abhängig von der Prüfungsordnung und der zu erwerbenden Anzahl der Leistungspunkte zusätzlich eine Auswahl aus den folgenden Leistungsnachweisen: Referat, Exzerpt, Mitarbeit in einem Expertenteam, Lexikonartikel, wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit. |
| Zielgruppe |
BA
PO 2008: CII, CIIIa + d (This is a Seminar, not a Hauptseminar!), CIVa + d
PO 2010: CII, BII/CII, AIII/CIIIa + d
PO 2015:
ANG-FG-C2, ANG-H-C2,
ANG-H-AC3A und D,
ANG-P-BC2 ,
ANG-P-AC3A und D |
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