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Institut für Anglistik Institut für Anglistik

Mag. Dr. Ulrich Pallua Mag. Dr. Ulrich Pallua, +43 512 507 4194, +43 512 507 34421

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British and/or Postcolonial Literature: Writing Back to the Centre: British Pretexts and Postcolonial Rewritings

PS 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

The aim of this course is to familiarise students with key concepts of postcolonial theory for the analysis of canonized pretexts and their respective postcolonial rewritings.

The course places special emphasis on a selection of British and postcolonial literary texts (primarily novels and plays). The postcolonial texts dealt with are rewritings, adaptations, or appropriations of British texts. Different theories on rewritings of pretexts - such as Edward Said ("original inscription to parallel script"), Homi Bhabha ("camouflage mimicry"), Linda Hutcheon ("parody is repetition with difference"), and Harold Bloom ("anxieties of indebtedness") - will serve as the basis for the close examination of canonized pretexts and several of their duplications, imitations, parodies, parallels, and interpellations.

lecture, group discussions, presentations

written paper

Castle, Gregory, ed. Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Print. Connor, Steve. The English Novel in History 1950-1995. London: Routledge, 1996. Print. Döring, Tobias. Postcolonial Literatures in English. UNI-WISSEN Anglistik/Amerikanistik. Stuttgart: Klett, 2008. Print. Lefevere, André. “’Beyond Interpretation,’ Or the Business of (Re)Writing.” Comparative Literature Studies 24.1 (1987): 17-39. Print. McHale, Brian. Postmodernist Fiction. London & New York: Routledge, 1987. Print. McLeod, John. Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000. Print. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Ed. David Damrosch, and Kevin J. H. Dettmar. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. Print. The Oxford History of the British Empire. Ed. Roger Louis. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. Print.

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en: positive Beurteilung der Pflichtmodule 3 und 16 Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): PS 2 English Literature Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): PS 2 English Literature
Beginn: Oktober 2011