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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2017 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Christiane Schlote (christiane.schlote@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Recalling his boyhood in the 1930s, the British historian and travel writer John Julius Norwich once stated that empire "was all around us, celebrated on our biscuit tins, chronicled in our cigarette cards, part of the fabric of our lives. We were all imperialists then." Apart from the British Empire's enormous political, socio-economic and cultural impact, it has also been closely linked with the study of English as an academic discipline. Elleke Boehmer has called the empire "in part a textual exercise" and, according to Shashi Tharoor, P. G. Wodehouse remains one of the most popular English-language authors in India. In this course, we will explore the impact of the British Empire on British literature and culture from the late Victorian period to World War II with a particular focus on the role of popular culture in the production of imperial images of Africa. We will examine concepts and topics such as 'banal nationalism', class, colonial nostalgia, cultural imperialism, empire films and the imperial Gothic by re-reading works by writers and artists including Robert Baden-Powell, Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Henry Rider Haggard, Beatrix Potter, Edgar Wallace and P. G. Wodehouse from a postcolonial perspective and within the context of the period's major socio-political upheavals. |
| Lernziele | Students will be familiarised with key concepts of British imperialist discourse and critically engage with the relationship between the British Empire and late Victorian and Edwardian literature and culture. |
| Literatur | Students should acquire the following texts: Agatha Christie, "The Man in the Brown Suit", and Henry Rider Haggard, "King Solomon's Mines". Theoretical and additional primary texts will be made available on ADAM. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Teilnahmebedingungen | For MA and PhD students only |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | Online-Angebot obligatorisch |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master Studienfach: Englisch) Modul Culture and Society (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul English & American Literature (Master Studienfach: Englisch (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Literaturgeschichte (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Research in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master Studienfach: Englisch) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Regular and active participation, reading assignments, oral presentation, optional seminar paper |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |