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Institut für Anglistik Institut für Anglistik

Mag. Andrea Strolz Mag. Andrea Strolz

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British and/or Postcolonial Literature: Conceptions of Art and the Artist in English Literature: A Panoramic View

PS 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

What is art? Is a work of art a product? Or is it a process? Does art give life a shape (Jean Anouilh)? Does art imitate life or does life imitate art (Oscar Wilde)? Can art simply be defined as anything that one can get away with (Andy Warhol)? What is the role of art, what the function of an artist in a society? In this course we will explore how Anglophone writers discuss conceptions of art and the artist within their literary works. We will analyze how definitions of art and notions of the artist have changed in the course of time, and, in comparing literary works and other forms of art, we will also deal with questions of intertextuality, intermediality, and ekphrasis. We will discuss literary works by William Shakespeare, Edward Bond, and Tom Stoppard, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Browning and Lord Alfred Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Dionne Brand, and Tracy Chevalier.

lecture inputs, workshops, discussion groups and panel discussions, reflective research diary, individual feedback and tutoring

academic paper (minimum 10 - maximum 15 pages, MLA style): 60% workshop (presentation): 20% reflective research journal: 10% active participation: 10%

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en: für Bachelor-Studierende: positive Beurteilung der Pflichtmodule 3 und 16 Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): PS2: English Literature Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): PS2: English Literature
Beginn: 6. Oktober 2010