Detective Fiction - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2018/19
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	01.10.2018 - 10.11.2018 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Di	10:00 bis 12:00	wöchentlich	16.10.2018 bis 05.02.2019	1.19.1.22		25.12.2018: 1. Weihnachtstag 01.01.2019: Neujahr	40

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. This course is intended as an introduction to detective fiction, one of the most recent and most popular sub-genres of literature. Students will read detective fiction alongside literary criticism, and there will also be examples of filmic adaptations that underline how the tropes and characters of detective fiction have disseminated into the landscape of popular culture. The seminar will chart the inception of the genre in the nineteenth century through a reading of seminal texts by Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. It will then consider how detective fiction flourished in its so-called “Golden Age” of the 1920s and 30s in Britain, made evident in the works of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. By looking at novels by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Rudolph Fisher we will also discuss a specific American variant, the “hard-boiled” detective tradition. Because we will analyze a wide array of short stories and novels, as well as literary criticism, it should be noted that this is a reading-intensive class with a very high workload.

Kommentar

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

This course is intended as an introduction to detective fiction, one of the most recent and most popular sub-genres of literature. Students will read detective fiction alongside literary criticism, and there will also be examples of filmic adaptations that underline how the tropes and characters of detective fiction have disseminated into the landscape of popular culture. The seminar will chart the inception of the genre in the nineteenth century through a reading of seminal texts by Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. It will then consider how detective fiction flourished in its so-called “Golden Age” of the 1920s and 30s in Britain, made evident in the works of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. By looking at novels by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Rudolph Fisher we will also discuss a specific American variant, the “hard-boiled” detective tradition. Because we will analyze a wide array of short stories and novels, as well as literary criticism, it should be noted that this is a reading-intensive class with a very high workload.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2018/19 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024