Romanticism and Decreation - Einzelansicht

Funktionen:

Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2017/18
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
Weitere Links	comment
Belegungsfrist	04.10.2017 - 20.11.2017 Belegung über PULS

Gruppe 1:

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Do	12:00 bis 14:00	wöchentlich	19.10.2017 bis 08.02.2018	1.19.1.16		21.12.2017: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 28.12.2017: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	30

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. The history of Romanticism scholarship has generally been preoccupied with what can only be described as the cult of the subject. Yet several Romantic writers around the turn of the nineteenth century can be seen to demonstrate an acute awareness of the problems associated with the assertion of the autonomous self, even if it is in the realm of politics and for the purpose of vindicating rights. This course aims to move beyond the concern with self and identity that has preoccupied traditional, and even more progressive, accounts of the field, in order to consider the ways in which some writers during the Romantic period can be seen to disrupt, destabilise, or altogether entirely erase the subject that has otherwise been seen as the distinctive innovation of Romanticism. Over the course of the semester, students will examine the modern theories of decreation by Simone Weil alongside the work of both canonical and non-canonical Romantic writers of the long eighteenth century in order to consider to what extent the decreated subject allows Romantic writers a means of thinking new forms of politics and ethics in the socio-political climate of post-Revolutionary Europe.
Literatur	Keats, John. ed Letters. Penguin Classics. Weil, Simone. War and the Illiad. Routledge. Wordsworth, Dorothy. The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals. Oxford World’s Classics. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Penguin Classics. Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Penguin Classics. NB: A course reader will be available on Moodle prior to the start of semester.

Kommentar

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

The history of Romanticism scholarship has generally been preoccupied with what can only be described as the cult of the subject. Yet several Romantic writers around the turn of the nineteenth century can be seen to demonstrate an acute awareness of the problems associated with the assertion of the autonomous self, even if it is in the realm of politics and for the purpose of vindicating rights. This course aims to move beyond the concern with self and identity that has preoccupied traditional, and even more progressive, accounts of the field, in order to consider the ways in which some writers during the Romantic period can be seen to disrupt, destabilise, or altogether entirely erase the subject that has otherwise been seen as the distinctive innovation of Romanticism. Over the course of the semester, students will examine the modern theories of decreation by Simone Weil alongside the work of both canonical and non-canonical Romantic writers of the long eighteenth century in order to consider to what extent the decreated subject allows Romantic writers a means of thinking new forms of politics and ethics in the socio-political climate of post-Revolutionary Europe.

Literatur

Keats, John. ed Letters. Penguin Classics.
Weil, Simone. War and the Illiad. Routledge.
Wordsworth, Dorothy. The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals. Oxford World’s Classics.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Penguin Classics.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Penguin Classics.
NB: A course reader will be available on Moodle prior to the start of semester.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2017/18 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024