Termine im WS 2012/13 - Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität ...

Participants should obtain the Penguin Classics edition of the novel and begin their
reading far ahead of the beginning of term.
Assessment: term paper (12-15 pages)
050 643 McColl
Poetry and Satire of the Long 18th Century, 4 CP
2 st. mo 12-14 GB 6/137 Nord
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The English Essay: Bacon to Orwell, 4 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/614 Süd
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 629)
050 644 Weidle
Selected Works by Oscar Wilde, 4 CP
2 st. do 14-16 GABF 04/413 Süd
In the seminar we shall be looking at selected works by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
within the social and historical contexts of the Victorian Age (1837-1901). Wilde's
major works, such as the plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady
Windermere's Fan, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, various short stories,
poems and some of his political and poetological writings/letters, will be considered in
the light of 19th-century discourses and phenomena such as aestheticism,
modernism and decadence.
I recommend the following edition (or any of the later reprints) of Wilde’s works:
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. With an introduction by Vyvyan Holland. London:
HarperPerennial, 1996.