Advanced seminar: HS: Forms of Feeling - Details

Advanced seminar: HS: Forms of Feeling - Details

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Course name Advanced seminar: HS: Forms of Feeling
Semester SS 2024
Current number of participants 25
maximum number of participants 25
Home institute Englische Literaturwissenschaft
participating institutes ZZZ_Literaturwissenschaft (Anglistik/Amerikanistik)
Courses type Advanced seminar in category Teaching
First date Tuesday, 23.04.2024 14:00 - 15:30, Room: (D 1003)
Pre-requisites Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft
Performance record Regular attendance and active participation, thesis paragraphs, written term paper.
Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt / hat Präsenz-Bestandteile Yes
Hauptunterrichtssprache englisch
Literaturhinweise All students must get hold of their own copy of the following novella:
Megan Hunter, The End We Start From (Picador, 2018). ISBN: 978-1509843985
ECTS points 8-10

Rooms and times

(D 1003)
Tuesday: 14:00 - 15:30, weekly (12x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

The expression of feelings and affects is one of the central functions of literature. Across all genres, literary texts, or characters in such texts, express emotions and feelings like joy and despair, love and hatred, anxiety and ennui, or hope and excitement. In this seminar we will focus on how such affects are represented aesthetically – in other words, what forms does feeling take in texts? As simple as this question may seem, its implications are complex: where does feeling reside in the first place? In the author, in the text, in the reader, or somewhere else entirely? Or are there different layers of feeling at work in any literary text (e.g. that of the reader, an affective reaction to a text, and the feelings of a character described in the text)? How is feeling connected to the form it takes in literary representations? Are there specific literary forms that are particularly expressive of a certain feeling (an idea that can be seen in some traditional literary genres, such as elegies as poems of mourning) or is the association of form and feeling a matter of convention at best?
As the primary idea of this seminar is to reflect on different textual capacities in the expression of feeling, we will look at a wide range of texts from different literary periods (early modern to contemporary) and genres (poetry, plays and prose).
A reader with poetry will be made available to all participants. In addition, participants in this course will have to obtain their own copies of the other set texts for this course (texts to be announced).

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "ALW/ELW/NELK: Vertiefungsmodul BA: HS".
Studierende der Anglistik/Amerikanistik und des Faches Englisch können sich bereits während der vorgezogenen Anmeldephase zur Sicherstellung des Studienfortschritts für die Aufbau- und Vertiefungsmodule anmelden. Hierzu wird ein gewisses Kontingent der Kursplätze im Zeitraum vom 19.02.2024 bis 28.02.2024 für die Anmeldung geöffnet. Die Verteilung der Plätze erfolgt am 01.03.2024. Bitte beachten Sie, dass in dieser Anmeldephase Studierende in höheren Fachsemestern bei der Verteilung der Plätze priorisiert werden.
Die allgemeine Anmeldephase beginnt am 04.03.2024 und endet am 08.04.2024.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • This setting is active from 04.03.2024 08:00 to 08.04.2024 12:00.
    Enrolment is allowed for up to 2 courses of the admission set.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 10.04.2024 on 12:00. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.
  • The enrolment is possible from 04.03.2024, 08:00 to 08.04.2024, 12:00.
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