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| Semester | fall semester 2022 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Peter Burleigh (p.burleigh@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | "Searoad," Ursula Le Guin's interwoven short stories located in an imagined Oregon coastal resort, is in my view one of the finest pieces of writing ever. The stories, rich in environment, personalities and identities, provoke a fantastical imagination of the ways in which location, space, period, time, and individual egos interweave as the fabric of community, and social & political relations. Bearing down in a different and self-consciously feminist direction is the poetry of Audre Lorde an unlikely contemporary of Le Guin's and in many ways equally concerned with how the world should be unstraightened. Finally, the position of Donna Haraway as a critic who undoes fatalism, determining that we are necessarily ensconced in a multiplicity of environments of which we are less than keepers and little more than interactants. Haraway also provides routes for us to determine ways in which we can keep the world odd and still make it our shared home, despite the encroaching devastating effects of environmental damage for which solely humans are responsible. As a triad, the three thinkers thus provoke different ways to essentially confront environment, time, space and selfhood. |
| Learning objectives | - Students will become familiar with the work of the three authors, especially with considering the particular feminist perspective that is articulated in these writers. - Students will further their critical approach to text and to authorship, including inter-relating various primary texts in meaningful ways. - Students will learn to consider formats and genres as not only form but as content - Students will have the opportunity to write a Proseminar paper attached to the course. |
| Bibliography | Ursula Le Guin: "Searoad" (1991) the complete work to be acquired and read Donna Haraway: "Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature" (1991) "Staying with the Trouble" (2016) extracts provided "The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde" extracts provided |
| Comments | THE COURSE HAS 4 REMAINING PLACES AS OF 7.9.22. PLEASE CONTACT THE INSTRUCTOR DIRECTLY IF YOU WISH TO REGISTER. Students should be prepared to read the whole of "Searoad", and lengthy sections of Haraway's work. Audre Lorde’s poetry will also constitute an important part of the course but the quantity of reading is less. |
| Admission requirements | THE COURSE HAS 4 REMAINING PLACES AS OF 7.9.22. PLEASE CONTACT THE INSTRUCTOR DIRECTLY IF YOU WISH TO REGISTER. It is strongly recommended that this course is taken only after the successful completion of the "Introduction I + II: Literary Studies" proseminars. |
| Course application | THE COURSE HAS 4 REMAINING PLACES AS OF 7.9.22. PLEASE CONTACT THE INSTRUCTOR DIRECTLY IF YOU WISH TO REGISTER. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Tuesday | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 20.09.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 27.09.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 04.10.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 11.10.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 18.10.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 25.10.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 01.11.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 08.11.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 15.11.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 22.11.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 29.11.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 06.12.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 13.12.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Tuesday 20.12.2022 | 10.15-12.00 | Nadelberg 6, Grosser Hörsaal |
| Modules |
Modul: Introduction to Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Bachelor's degree subject: English) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |