Literature and Affect - Einzelansicht

Funktionen:

Veranstaltungsart	Blockveranstaltung	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	SoSe 2019
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	01.04.2019 - 20.05.2019 Belegung über PULS

Gruppe 1:

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Blockveranstaltung	-	10:00 bis 16:00	Block	22.07.2019 bis 26.07.2019	1.19.0.31			30

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. Since the last decade of the twentieth century, scholars have begun to examine the various ways in which political, economic and cultural transformations have been changing the realm of the social in terms of affect, that is, in terms of visceral forces that exist beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing but that can nevertheless drive us towards movement, thought, and constantly changing forms of relation. Over the course of this block seminar students will examine a range of theories from scholars working in the field of affect studies alongside novels and poems that all, in various ways, focus on the non-linguistic, corporeal and performative aspects of communication, thus compelling a radical reconsideration of the ways in which we understand being and knowledge as something distinctly human. Students will analyse the ways in which literatures and theories of affect attempt to recalibrate relations between the organic body and the non-organic, between equilibrium-seeking closed systems to open systems of flux and flow, between criticism that is based on the subject as the central organising point of consciousness and knowing to one that engages with fields of information as process, and finally, between the human and the nonhuman. Note: this course will be run as a block seminar over one week (five days). Each day will be divided into three seminars, with a short break between the first two seminars and a longer lunch break before the final seminar of each day. The first seminar of each day comprises a lecture and discussion on a key theory. In the second seminar, students will discuss a poem, a film scene or a dance performance in terms of the key theory. The final seminar of each day will be devoted to a critical analysis of one of the set primary texts.
Literatur	Set Texts: • Djuna Barnes. Nightwood • Anne Carson. Autobiography of Red • John Berger. King • Morgan Yasbincek. liv • Sam Mendes, dir. American Beauty (film) NB: Course readings will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester. Students are expected to have read all course material and primary texts, and watched the film (American Beauty) by the beginning of the block seminar.

Kommentar

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

Since the last decade of the twentieth century, scholars have begun to examine the various ways in which political, economic and cultural transformations have been changing the realm of the social in terms of affect, that is, in terms of visceral forces that exist beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing but that can nevertheless drive us towards movement, thought, and constantly changing forms of relation. Over the course of this block seminar students will examine a range of theories from scholars working in the field of affect studies alongside novels and poems that all, in various ways, focus on the non-linguistic, corporeal and performative aspects of communication, thus compelling a radical reconsideration of the ways in which we understand being and knowledge as something distinctly human. Students will analyse the ways in which literatures and theories of affect attempt to recalibrate relations between the organic body and the non-organic, between equilibrium-seeking closed systems to open systems of flux and flow, between criticism that is based on the subject as the central organising point of consciousness and knowing to one that engages with fields of information as process, and finally, between the human and the nonhuman.

Note: this course will be run as a block seminar over one week (five days). Each day will be divided into three seminars, with a short break between the first two seminars and a longer lunch break before the final seminar of each day. The first seminar of each day comprises a lecture and discussion on a key theory. In the second seminar, students will discuss a poem, a film scene or a dance performance in terms of the key theory. The final seminar of each day will be devoted to a critical analysis of one of the set primary texts.

Literatur

Set Texts:
• Djuna Barnes. Nightwood
• Anne Carson. Autobiography of Red
• John Berger. King
• Morgan Yasbincek. liv
• Sam Mendes, dir. American Beauty (film)

NB: Course readings will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester. Students are expected to have read all course material and primary texts, and watched the film (American Beauty) by the beginning of the block seminar.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2019 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024