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Seminare 050 638 Klawitter The First World War in Poetry, Autobiography and Fiction, 4 CP 2 st. mi 10-12 GB 6/137 Nord The First World War (1914-1918) was one of the great traumas of the twentieth century. The horrific experience of trench warfare elicited a great number of literary texts which were to exert a strong influence on the formation of collective memories. This is particularly true of Britain, where the ‘Great War’ still informs the official culture of war commemoration and plays a considerable part in the reaffirmation of national identity. The seminar focusses on the early literary engagement with the war, namely the poetry produced by the so-called ‘War Poets’, but also narrative fiction and memoirs which were written in the decade after the war. We will begin our discussions with Edmund Blunden’s memoirs Undertones of War (1928) and Robert Graves’s autobiography Goodbye to All That (1929), which are regarded as classic accounts of the Western Front. Four sessions of the seminar will be devoted to the reading of war poetry. This will include Charles Hamilton Sorley’s “All the Hills and Vales Along”, Siegfried Sassoon’s “They”, Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” and Isaac Rosenberg’s “Break of Day in the Trenches”. The short stories chosen for discussion are Richard Aldington’s “The Case of Lieutenant Hall” and Winifred Holtby’s “So Handy for the Fun Fair”. While acknowledging the documentary dimension of all these texts, our investigation will be primarily geared towards a consideration of the expressive potential of each genre and its wider function within the cultural representation of war. Participants should purchase the Penguin editions of Undertones of War and Goodbye to All That. The shorter texts will be made available on Blackboard. Assessment/requirements: Übung: presentation in class; Seminar: 12-15-page term paper (wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit).
050 639 Klawitter Historiographic Metafiction: Graham Swift’s Waterland and Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, 4 CP ___________________________________________________________________ 2 st. do 10-12 GABF 04/613 Süd The term ‘historiographic metafiction’ (coined by Linda Hutcheon) refers to a postmodernist type of historical fiction which problematises the telling and writing of historical events rather than engaging in their representation. The insistence on the constructedness and plurality of history raises weighty questions about truth, the relation of fiction and reality, identity formation and the political dimension of historiography. In our seminar we will read Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983) and Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger (1987), two much-acclaimed novels which could be regarded as prime examples of this type of fiction. Through close analysis of the narrative techniques, especially the employed metanarrative and metafictional devices, we will discuss how and to what ends the novels question received notions of history and history writing. Participants should purchase the Picador edition of Waterland and the latest Penguin edition of Moon Tiger. Assessment/requirements: Übung: presentation in class; Seminar: 12-15-page term paper (wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit). 050 640 Wagner Ecocriticism, 4 CP 2 st. do 14-16 GB 5/37 Nord The relatively new field of ecocriticism examines the relationship between humans and the environment in literature and other fields of cultural production. This course is divided into two parts: the first part will equip students with a solid grounding in ecocritical theory; in the second part, we will apply that theory to two seminal ecological novels, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia (1975) and Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood (2009). All students are expected to buy (or borrow) the following editions of these texts: Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. London: Virago, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-84408-564-4
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