Kommentiertes Vorlesungsverzeichnis Anglistik Heidelberg SS 2008

4.6 Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft
beginning of term:
William Shakespeare, King Lear (Ed. R.A. Foakes, Arden, 1997).
Edward Bond, Lear (Methuen).
Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres (Random House, 2003).
Course requirements: Regular attendance and active participation in class (1 course credit);
individual preparation (2 course credits); oral presentation (1 course credit); written term paper (2
course credits).
Literature & Film: Adapting Shakespeare for the Screen
Dr. Hertel Dienstag 09:15 – 10:45 112 2st.
This is another course in the “Literature & Film” series, which aims to combine the close reading of
literary texts with the analysis of the respective text-to-screen adaptations.We will start the semester
off by looking at the historical and theatrical context of Shakespearean drama before doing a close
reading of two of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like
It. After a short excursion into the world of film studies, film semiotics and the ‘basic tools’ for film
analysis, we will attempt to interpret the different film versions chosen for this course. Among them
will be the 1999 adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Michael Hoffman as well as the
most recent screen version of As You Like It directed by Kenneth Branagh in 2006.
Registration: Please register personally or by email Kirsten.Hertel@as.uni-heidelberg.de.
Texts: Participants are asked to have read the two plays by the beginning of the summer term in the
Oxford-World-Classics edition. And for those who would like to prepare in advance for the aspects
of film analysis and adaptation three books can be recommended:
J. Monaco, How to Read a Film (2000),
Korte, Einführung in die systematische Filmanalyse (2000/2004),
D. Cartmell & I. Whelehan, Adaptations. From Text to Screen, Screen to Text (1999).
Course requirements: Regular attendance and active participation in class (1 CP); oral
presentation (1 CP); individual preparation (2 CP) and written term paper (2 CP).
Julian Barnes
Dr. Ruge Montag 16:15 – 17:45 113 2st.
Julian Barnes is one of the most prolific and widely read contemporary British writers. He is
particularly noted for his narrative experiments and his obsession with history. His work has often
been referred to as postmodernist. In our seminar we shall discuss four very different novels by
Julian Barnes: Talking It Over, the story of a love triangle; the satirical dystopia England, England;
as well as his two highly acclaimed fictional biographies, Flaubert’s Parrot and Arthur & George
(his most recent work, a novel about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes).
Registration: Please register by email enno.ruge@freenet.de.
Texts: Please buy the following texts (reprints of these editions will also be accepted, of course).
Flaubert’s Parrot. London: Picador, 1985.
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters London: Picador, 1990
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