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48669-01 - Seminar: The Essay: A Bit of Cultural History Based on One Genre 3 KP

Semester Herbstsemester 2024
Angebotsmuster unregelmässig
Dozierende Ladina Bezzola Lambert (ladina.bezzola@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn)
Inhalt The essay identifies itself in its name: essays 'assay', they test, search, and ask true questions, questions to which the answer is neither foreknown, nor projected; is not even the main aim in the process of searching for it. Essays are about setting out on a journey into the unknown and about representing the process of that journey in the very process of journeying. This makes the essay both a highly personal, dialogic, and a formless form. A form that, while strongly conscious of style and thus highly aesthetic, radically defies form as it defies closure and dogma.
The genre of the essay provides an airy shelter to a wide array of topics covering several centuries: texts range from philosophy, science, religion, women’s rights, literary criticism, satire, and other domains. The aim of this seminar is thus twofold: on an aesthetic level, we will assay the essay as a Protean form reflecting a process of searching, writing, and reading. The second aim is historical in nature: by including texts dating from the late sixteenth through the early twentieth century, the seminar offers insight into radical ideas and thought experiments from particular moments in history, thus allowing students to sketch a cultural and literary history based on the genre of the essay.
Lernziele Students will familiarize themselves with a wide variety of cultural concerns in the history of English (and Continental European) literature and thought.
Literatur All primary and secondary texts will be made available on ADAM. For the first meeting, students are expected to read materials in the course folder to week 1.
Weblink ADAM

 

Teilnahmebedingungen This seminar is for BA students on the advanced level who have completed ALL three introductory modules (including the proseminar papers).
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Einsatz digitaler Medien Online-Angebot obligatorisch

 

Intervall Wochentag Zeit Raum
wöchentlich Montag 10.15-12.00 Nadelberg 6, Raum 11

Einzeltermine

Datum Zeit Raum
Montag 16.09.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 23.09.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 30.09.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 07.10.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 14.10.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 21.10.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 28.10.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 04.11.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 11.11.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 18.11.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 25.11.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 02.12.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 09.12.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Montag 16.12.2024 10.15-12.00 Uhr Nadelberg 6, Raum 11
Module Modul: Advanced Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Bachelor Studienfach: Englisch)
Leistungsüberprüfung Lehrveranst.-begleitend
Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung presentation, active participation
An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich
Wiederholungsprüfung keine Wiederholungsprüfung
Skala Pass / Fail
Wiederholtes Belegen beliebig wiederholbar
Zuständige Fakultät Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch
Anbietende Organisationseinheit Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

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