Advanced seminar: HS: Affect and Literature - Details

Advanced seminar: HS: Affect and Literature - Details

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Course name Advanced seminar: HS: Affect and Literature
Semester WS 2024/25
Current number of participants 24
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, 15.10.2024 15:45 - 17:15, 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
ECTS points 8-10

Rooms and times

(D 1003)
Tuesday: 15:45 - 17:15, weekly (15x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Affect theory is an interdisciplinary field that explores the ways in which emotions and bodily sensations influence human experience and social life. It emphasizes the non-cognitive, pre-verbal aspects of experience that precede and shape conscious thought.
Affect theory broadens the scope of literary analysis beyond cognitive and representational frameworks. The seminar will consider the affective dimensions of texts and discuss how literature evokes, manipulates, and represents bodily sensations and emotions. We shall also take a look at reader-response theory and elaborate on the emotional and sensory experiences of readers. We shall investigate how texts generate affective responses and how these responses shape interpretation and meaning-making.

We shall read and study the following texts closely:

Ian McEwan, "Atonement"; Sally Rooney, "Normal People"; Lucy Prebble, "Enron"; Lucy Kirkwood, "The Children"; Stef Smith, "Human Animals" and a selection of contemporary poetry.

Students are requested to purchase the following edition of McEwan's novel: Ian McEwan, London: Ballantine Books, reprint. https://www.amazon.de/Atonement-Novel-Ian-McEwan/dp/038572179X

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Zeitgesteuerte Anmeldung: HS: Affect and Literature".
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 12.08.2024 bis 28.08.2024 für die Anmeldung geöffnet. Die Verteilung der Plätze erfolgt am 30.08.2024. Bitte beachten Sie, dass in dieser Anmeldephase Studierende in höheren Fachsemestern bei der Verteilung der Plätze priorisiert werden.
Die allgemeine Anmeldephase beginnt am 02.09.2024 und endet am 07.10.2024.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • The enrolment is possible from 02.09.2024, 08:00 to 07.10.2024, 12:00.
  • The following categories of people are preferred during seat allocation:
    • Degree is Master of Arts (1130 persons)
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 09.10.2024 on 12:00. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.