Kommentiertes Vorlesungsverzeichnis Anglistik Heidelberg SS 2008

4.5 Proseminar I Literaturwissenschaft
one hand, aestheticism and l’art pour l’art on the other will be explored in an intermedial context of
writing, painting and the Arts and Crafts Movement as represented by William Morris.
Registration: Please register with Grundmann@uni-heidelberg.de.
Texts: Please obtain your own copy of Daniel Karlin, ed., The New Penguin Book of Victorian
Verse (London: A. Lane, 1997).
Also of interest:
Armstrong, Isobel, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics (London: Routledge, 1993)
Richards, Bernard, English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-90 (London: Longman, 1988)
Course Requirements: Regular attendance and active participation (1 CP); course preparation/
homework assignments (1,5 CP); oral presentation with ditailed handout (1 CP); term paper (2 CP).
Introduction to the Analysis of Drama: Oscar Wilde
Dr. Hirsch Montag 14:15 – 15:45 333 2st.
In focussing on some of Oscar Wilde’s most popular plays, namely Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892),
A Woman of No Importance (1893), and The Importance of Being Ernest (1895), this course aims at
making you familiar with key categories and crucial strategies of studying drama.
Furthermore, by moving on from a close reading of our three primary sources to selected texts by
some of Wilde’s contemporaries, we shall not only recapture the late-Victorian context of his
dramatic achievement but also explore its specifically subversive qualities.
Registration: Please register personally or via email Bernd.Hirsch@as-uni-heidelberg.de.
Texts: Please purchase The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings (Signet Classics,
2004), which will be available locally, and read the three plays mentioned above before the
beginning of term.
Some recommendations for further reading would be:
Bernd Schulte-Middelich (ed.), Die ‚Nineties‘: Das englische fin de siècle zwischen Dekadenz und
Sozialkritik. München, 1983.
Sos Eltis, Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde. Oxford, 1996.
Peter Raby (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. Cambridge et al., 1997.
Course Requirements: Regular attendance and active participation in class (1 CP); individual
preparation (1,5 CP); oral presentation (1 CP); written term paper (2 CP).
Edgar Allan Poe
Philip Bracher Donnerstag 16:15 – 17:45 115 2st.
After Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, only four mourners reportedly attended his burial.
The minister decided not to deliver a sermon for such a small audience; the grave itself sat
unmarked for more than two decades. With this unpretentious burial train, the city of Baltimore bid
farewell to one of its greatest poets. Posthumously, Poe has become a national icon and one of the
best-known American authors, and his literary output, though not great in volume, is remarkable in
its quality and range.
Poe was a prolific writer of short stories, a poet, and an acerbic literary critic of great insight. His
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