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Count Dracula and Carmilla, we will look at Herbert G. de Lisser’s The White Witch of Rose Hall (1929), which features an exploitative Caribbean post-colonial female vampire, Poppy Z. Brite’s 1992 novel Lost Souls (whose entire cast of vampires features an array of gendered identity problems) and also Mudrooroo Narogin’s The Undying (1998), a gothic novel set in aboriginal Australia. Please read Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” before the beginning of class. Additional primary and secondary materials will be uploaded onto Moodle. [A caveat: if you’re mainly interested in the Twilight series or zombie movies you’ll be disappointed – the course is academic and therefore quite theory-oriented.] Assessment/requirements: active participation, presentation, written assignment/s or term paper (wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit). 050 648 Freitag “To turn from this great world of Gentlemen, to the small lowly sphere” – The Cultural Work of Local Color, 4 CP ___________________________________________________________________ 2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd The term “Local Color” designates a body of mostly short prose texts, written in the second half of the 19th century. It was devoted to specific regions of the U.S., i.e. the West, the South, or the rural East coast, and tells much about the culture and the customs of these regions. Yet because of its devotion to “the small lowly sphere,” i.e. regional matters, Local Color has long been thought to be of lesser value than realism, the dominant literary method of the time. By an introduction to selected Local Color texts and their cultural contexts, this judgement will be re-evaluated in the seminar. The texts will be made available in a reader or on Blackboard. Assessment/requirements: Übung: active participation, written assignments; <strong>Seminar</strong>: the above, and 10-page term paper (wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit).
--- --- Wagner Ecocriticism, 4 CP 2 st. do 14-16 GB 5/37 Nord (vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 640) 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 Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia. New York: Bantam, 1990. ISBN: 978-0-553-34847-7 Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. 2nd ed. New Critical Idiom. London and New York: Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-415-66786-9 Assessment/requirements: Übung: short essay; <strong>Seminar</strong>: term paper (wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit). 050 649 Kindinger ‘Home’ in US-American Literature and Culture, 4 CP 2 st. di 10-12 GB 6/137 Nord Dorothy’s remark that “there is no place like home” in The Wizard of Oz, reveals much about the ‘nature’ of this place we are all familiar with: not only is there no other place like home, if we read Dorothy’s comment differently, could home actually be an impossible place that only exists in our imagination and memory? Can home in these times of globalization and mobility ever meet our expectations? In this class, we will explore what and where home is, and how it is represented in American literature and culture by approaching the United States as home to millions of immigrants, but also by considering other concepts of home, such as ‘house-as-home’ and ‘region-ashome’ (e.g. the American South). We will read and deal with theoretical texts, as well
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