Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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material, we will also focus on the various uses and purposes of intertextuality and of<br />
literary and filmic adaptation.<br />
Required reading: 1) Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter and Maryse Condé, I,<br />
Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (plus scenes from film adaptations of TSC); 2) Henry<br />
David Thoreau, Walden (excerpts), Jack London, Call of the Wild [student<br />
presentation], Jon Krakauer Into the Wild and Melissa Gilbert, The Last American<br />
Man. 3) Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn and Jon Clinch, Finn. Please obtain your own<br />
copies of the texts; excerpts from Walden as well as additional secondary texts will<br />
be made available via Moodle.<br />
Assessment/rquirements: attendance and active participation, presentation, paper.<br />
050 727 Niederhoff<br />
Jonathan Swift, 5 CP<br />
2 st. do 10-12 GB 02/160<br />
In this seminar we will read and discuss the major writings of Jonathan Swift:<br />
Gulliver’s Travels, prose satires such as “The Battle of the Books” and poems such<br />
as “Verses on the Death of Dr Swift”. We will attempt to relate these writings to their<br />
various contexts in political, social and intellectual history and we will discuss the<br />
problematic genre label of satire, which is usually attached to Swift’s works. Master<br />
students may take this seminar in connection with the lecture “The English Novel in the<br />
Eighteenth Century”, but of course this is not a must.<br />
Required text: Jonathan Swift, The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift. Ed. Claude<br />
Rawson and Ian Higgings. Norton Critical Editions. New York: Norton, 2009.<br />
Assessment/requirements: Übung: expert group / presentation and short paper<br />
related to presentation; <strong>Seminar</strong>: expert group / presentation and research paper.<br />
050 728 Niederhoff<br />
G.B. Shaw and the Genre of Comedy, 5 CP<br />
2 st. di 14-16 GB 03/49<br />
This seminar is about the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), who is<br />
known both for his brilliant wit and his revolutionary views. We will take a look at<br />
some of his main concerns – in particular his feminism and his socialism – and we<br />
will analyse how these concerns are reflected (or not) in his plays. A further emphasis
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