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21763-01 - Seminar: Worldly Goods: British and American Consumer Culture (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2009 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Werner Brönnimann (werner.broennimann@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | This course will be devoted to English and American texts and some film materials that thematise the world of consumer products and their consumers. Although the materials covered will be chosen from several disciplines such as economics, anthropology, history and cultural studies, American and English cultural sources and concerns will predominate. It will be attempted to do justice to the phenomenon of modern consumer culture by studying diverse points of view-some of them perhaps rather surprisingly controversial-on phenomena such as the inception of products, their distribution, their consumers, and to strike a balance between theoretical reflection and narrative, even anecdotal, evidence. Hence, this will also be a seminar on literary and artistic representations of supermarkets and on luxury products, and more generally on the cultural significance of consumerist objects of desire and of the processes involved in selling and buying them. For all its inevitablility, the critique of consumerism and of object fetishism will be counterpointed by artistic celebrations of a culture of plenitude. |
| Lernziele | Expanding students knowledge of English and American Literature. Pursuing and critically assessing both fictional and non-fictional materials. Understanding the aims and methods of an interdisciplinary cultural studies project. Training hermeneutic abilities. Enhancing awareness of critical approaches. |
| Literatur | Most of the material will be made available on the EVA server. However, students are required to purchase the following book: Martin Amis, "Money". |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Open to students students who have completed their 2nd year (including the paper) in Literature and Culture Studies. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Please register for this course by sending an email to Werner.Broennimann@unibas.ch. You will receive a provisional programme and the reading material for the first session in the last week of the winter break. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Interphilologisches Angebot: Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Bachelor Studienfach: Deutsche Philologie) Modul Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Master Studienfach: Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft (Master Studienfach: Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft) Modul English & American Literature (Master Studienfach: Englisch) Modul Extending the View (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor Studienfach: Englisch) Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor Studienfach: Englisch) Modul Literatur- und Kulturtheorie (Bachelor Studienfach: Hispanistik) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Students are expected to make one oral presentation, to write the minutes of one meeting, to contribute actively to classroom discussion and to attend the course regularly (i.e. no more than three missed meetings). Optional Seminararbeit. |
| 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 | Englisches Seminar |