*EAS-1411*:
If you are allotted to this course you will automatically be signed up for the corresponding Übung "Narrative Analysis" (Mon. 11.45-13.15 OR Tues. 11.45-13.15). Be sure to keep those slots free in your timetable.
*EAS-1412*
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Leistungsnachweis
Short response paragraphs
Final Research Essay (5000 words) or Portfolio
Online/Digitale Veranstaltung
Veranstaltung wird online/digital abgehalten.
Hauptunterrichtssprache
englisch
Literaturhinweise
Students are required to bring their own copies of the following texts (I will be using the Penguin Classics editions, which I can recommend, but other editions are permissible, too):
Samuel Richardson, _Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded_
Henry Fielding, _Shamela_
Henry Fielding, _Joseph Andrews_
Sonstiges
*EAS-1411*:
If you are allotted to this course you will automatically be signed up for the corresponding Übung "Narrative Analysis" (Mon. 11.45-13.15 OR Tues. 11.45-13.15). Be sure to keep those slots free in your timetable.
*EAS-1412*
If you are wrongly allotted to the Übung, please make sure to sign out of it, in order to open up the slot for your fellow students.
Although the term “novel” defies easy definition and although literary history provides many earlier examples of extended prose fiction, the 18th century is widely regarded the time during which the modern novel came into being and was established as a genre in its own right. In this development, English writers may be said to have led the way, and while Defoe’s _Robinson Crusoe_ (1719) is often called the first English novel, it is with the works of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding that the novel fully reaches its characteristic combination of realism, individualism, and psychological introspection. Richardson’s spectacularly successful epistolary novel _Pamela_ (1740) decidedly shifts the narratorial focus from the events themselves to the heroine’s reflections on them, inviting the reader to engage emotionally with her tribulations and character development. Fielding’s picaresque and panoramic _Joseph Andrews_ (1742), parodying _Pamela_ and mocking Richardson’s pious middle-class values, is maybe the first narrative to provide a tangible awareness of the novel as a new literary genre, especially in its metafictional theoretical reflections.
In the seminar, we will try to understand how the new form of the novel, with its plainness of style, its basic realism, and its focus on the feelings and experiences of thoroughly individualised characters taken from the ranks of ordinary people, emerged from a particular cultural and historical context. We will examine, in other words, how a period of relative inner peace and tranquillity, of economic prosperity, of growing literacy, of new pathways in natural sciences and philosophy, and of a new middle-class consciousness created a rapidly growing readership demanding stories about people whose lives resembled their own and, for the first time, elevated writers of prose fiction above poets and turned Richardson and Fielding into the most popular authors of their time. In a close examination of the early writings of the two rivals, we will analyse how religious sentiments mingle with a modern sense of individuality, how the new-born bourgeoisie redefined the role of women, how the idealisation of reason and rationality was accompanied by a reinforced trust in the moral value of empathy and sentimentality, and how the genre of the novel struggled for acceptance in the canon of classical literary genres. We will also explore and compare the novels from a narratological point of view and discuss the various effects of different modes of narration.
Students are required to bring their own copies of the following texts (I will be using the Penguin Classics editions, which I can recommend, but other editions are permissible, too):
Samuel Richardson, _Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded_
Henry Fielding, _Shamela_
Henry Fielding, _Joseph Andrews_
Anmelderegeln
Diese Veranstaltung gehört zum Anmeldeset "Anmeldeverfahren ELW/ALW/NELK: BA/LA Aufbaumodul (PS+Ü)".
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Die Anmeldephase vom 25.03.-05.04.19 richtet sich *ausschließlich* an Lehramt-Studierende. Studierende, die sich in der für sie nicht vorgesehenen Anmeldephase für die Seminare eintragen, werden ohne Vorwarnung aus dem Anmeldevorgang entfernt. Folgende Regeln gelten für die Anmeldung:
Diese Regel gilt von 25.03.2019 18:00 bis 05.04.2019 18:00. Die Anmeldung zu maximal 1 Veranstaltungen des Anmeldesets ist erlaubt.
Die Anmeldung ist möglich von 25.03.2019, 18:00 bis 05.04.2019, 18:00.
Es wird eine festgelegte Anzahl von Plätzen in den Veranstaltungen verteilt.
Die Plätze in den betreffenden Veranstaltungen wurden am 08.04.2019 um 12:00 verteilt. Weitere Plätze werden evtl. über Wartelisten zur Verfügung gestellt.
