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Literature and Brexit - Einzelansicht

Veranstaltungsart Seminar Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS 2 Semester SoSe 2020
Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik   Sprache englisch
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Belegungsfrist 20.04.2020 - 10.05.2020

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Seminar Mi 10:00 bis 12:00 wöchentlich 22.04.2020 bis 22.07.2020  1.09.1.15 Prof. Dr. Wiemann   30
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The long-drawn process that led to the 2016 Brexit referendum and from there to the actual secession of the UK from the EU has not only reveraled the faultlines and fissures in Britain's deeply polarized society; it has also put on the agenda the question as to what kind of country Britain is, and what kind of Britain people wish to live in. Brexit, in other words, is symptomatic of a society struggling to redefine itself, its 'identity', its place in the world, in history, and in the future. These, of course, are questions that literature as a specific domain of meaning-making has always engaged with, and it should not come as a surprise that the Brexit process has provoked numerous British writers to respond to the crisis in multiple ways -- from the social realism of the 'condition of England' novel to scathing grotesque satires; from dytopian visions of a völkisch post-Brexit Britain to the reflexive, pensive or angry monlogues of the 'Brexit Shorts' drama series launched by The Guardian; from poetic allegories to mock-documentary collages.

In our seminar we will read and discuss a number of representative Brexit novels, plays and poems/song lyrics, some of them snappy and catchy, others lengthy and laborious. We will frame or readings not only with the contextual specifics of the conditions that these texts respond to but also with more principal questiosn about the relations between literature and socio-hisotrical and political processes.

N.B.: This is a seminar with extensive reading requirements!

 

Literatur

Buy and read the following primary texts:

* Jonathan Coe, Middle England (London: Viking 2018)

* Ian McEwan, The Cockroach (London: Anchor Books 2019)

* Ali Smith, Autumn (London: Penguin 2016)

Additional material will be made available on moodle in due course

Leistungsnachweis

3 CPs non-graded for

* regular attendance and active participation by contributing to at least two forum sessions;

* two response papers (500 words each) to be submitted in the middle and at the end of the semester.

 

3 CPs graded for

* regular attendance and active participation by contributing to at least two forum sessions;

* a critical bibliography of one Brexit novel to be sumitted by June 15;

* two response papers (500 words each) to be submitted in the middle and at the end of the semester.

 

 


Strukturbaum
Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2020 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024