Reading Popular Literature Through the Lens of Critical Theories - Single View

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Type of Course	Seminar	Number	260811
Hours per week in term	2	Term	SoSe 2015
Department	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Language	englisch
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application period	01.04.2015 - 10.05.2015 enrollment

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		Day	Time	Frequency	Duration	Room	Lecturer	Canceled/rescheduled on	Max. participants
	Seminar	Mo	12:00 to 14:00	wöchentlich	13.04.2015 to 20.07.2015	1.19.1.22	Dr. Coffey		40

Description	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. The seminar will use Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga to explore theoretical approaches that focus critically on social power relations such as gender, sexuality and sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, and class, and to apply these theories to the analysis of literary texts. The Twilight books are especially well suited for this kind of exemplary analysis. On the one hand, the vampire has always functioned as a boundary figure that was used to establish – or sometimes question – boundaries between genders, between “us” and “them”, and between socially acceptable and “dangerous” sexual behaviour. On the other hand, though, the Twilight books add new spins to some of these constellations and present a striking mixture of (seemingly?) conservative and seemingly progressive elements that not only call for careful analysis, but also make that analysis particularly useful for thinking about current power structures.
Literature	Please read the four Twilight books (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn) before the start of the semester. (Watching the films is not enough!)

Description

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

The seminar will use Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga to explore theoretical approaches that focus critically on social power relations such as gender, sexuality and sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, and class, and to apply these theories to the analysis of literary texts.
The Twilight books are especially well suited for this kind of exemplary analysis. On the one hand, the vampire has always functioned as a boundary figure that was used to establish – or sometimes question – boundaries between genders, between “us” and “them”, and between socially acceptable and “dangerous” sexual behaviour. On the other hand, though, the Twilight books add new spins to some of these constellations and present a striking mixture of (seemingly?) conservative and seemingly progressive elements that not only call for careful analysis, but also make that analysis particularly useful for thinking about current power structures.

Literature

Please read the four Twilight books (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn) before the start of the semester. (Watching the films is not enough!)

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