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The Gothic: Novels and Movies
(anrechenbar als K 531/32 für ZweitfachanglistInnen – Diplom und Lehramt – und als K 701)
Gastprofessor Eckart Voigts-Virchow, Wed 12-14, Unterrichtsraum (ab 9.3.)
Inaugurated by Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, the Gothic novel was the defining genre of late
18 th -century literature. Fred Botting writes: “Associated with wildness, Gothic signified an overabundance
of imaginative frenzy, untamed by reason and unrestrained by conventional
eighteenth century demands for simplicity, realism and probability. […] Gothic signified a trend
toward an aesthetics based on feeling and emotion and associated primarily with the sublime."
(1996: 3) The novels are marked by a set of standard characteristics: the Gothic edifice as setting
as well as stock characters, such as spectres, monsters, evil aristocrats, and fainting heroines. The
Gothic formula continues to be influential in the contemporary neo-Gothic and countless horror
movies. We will, therefore, also look at Gothic elements in movies such as Ken Russell's Gothic
(1986) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh (1994) or Bram Stoker's Dracula by
Francis Ford Coppola (1992)
Assessment: oral presentation and term paper
The texts discussed are available as Four Gothic Novels from OUP (ISBN 0-19-282331-0):
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764), William Beckford, Vathek (1786), Matthew
Lewis, The Monk (1796), Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818). We will also use the e-learning
environment WebCT: INTERNET ACCESS IS RECOMMENDED!
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FACHDIDAKTIK /LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION
Hinweis für Studierende des Lehramtsstudiums nach dem alten Studienplan:
K 601 (Methodik des Englischunterrichts, VO) und K 602 (Einführung in die Fachdidaktik des
Englischen 2) können prinzipiell erst nach vollständig abgelegter 1. Diplomprüfung besucht
werden und sind nicht vorziehbar.
Es wird außerdem dringend empfohlen, diese Lehrveranstaltungen erst zu besuchen , nach
Absolvierung der Lehrveranstaltung Fachdidaktik 1 und des Schulpraktikums, nachdem man
bereits praktische Unterrichtserfahrung gewonnen hat.
1st, UE, p.A.
Registration see p. 15 (16)
621: Begleitlehrveranstaltung zum Schulpraktikum
The aim of this course is to assist and support students during their so called Schulpraktikum
(Übungsphase) with regard to observation techniques and criteria, planning tasks in connection