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35003-01 - Forschungsseminar: From Private to Public: Letter Writing in American Literature (4 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2013 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Franziska Gygax (franziska.gygax@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Letter writing has always played a crucial role in literary practices and in the age of e-mail it has even gained more prominence although the new medium has transformed the social transactions between writer and reader. Whether we read an e-mail letter or a letter in a novel the letter exchange is always embedded in specific cultural and social conditions, and often complex notions of interactions and transactions between writer and addressee(s) are at work. In this course we will deal with a selection of twentieth-century American novels that incorporate letters in various ways or can be read as letters. In addition we will discuss the theoretical conditions of epistolary practices (e.g. absence/presence) and explore the meanings of the textual possibilities of letters. Apart from the (epistolary) novels we will also read letters by prominent American authors like Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
| Lernziele | Students will be introduced to the traditions of epistolarity, to contemporary debates of the genre, and to representative texts. This seminar is also meant to address more complex issues of students' own research, above all in the context of their seminar papers. (MA seminar papers can only be written in connection with such a research seminar.) |
| Literatur | Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita" (Penguin); Alice Walker, "The Color Purple" (Harcourt Brace); Ana Castillo, "The Mixquiahuala Letters" (Anchor); Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" (Penguin). Additional texts will be available on ISIS. |
| Weblink | ISIS |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Open to MA students only. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Please register by e-mail to franziska.gygax@unibas.ch. |
| 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 English & American Literature (Master Studienfach: Englisch (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Literaturgeschichte (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Research in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master Studienfach: Englisch) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Regular attendance, active participation, presentation |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |