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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: "Of Private Rooms, Public Places and Other Spaces": Spatial Interaction and the (Re)Production of Space in Anglophone Literatures

PS 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

In this course we will concern ourselves with issues related to what is often referred to as the “spatial turn” in cultural studies and in the social sciences. Through an analysis of literary texts that discuss relations between place and (cultural, social, ethnic) identity, relations between space and gender, relations between public places and private spaces, or relations between real and imagined places, we will deal with questions of how we are defined by the spaces in which we locate – or are, in fact, denied to locate ourselves and of how such spaces are produced and reproduced.

lecture inputs, workshops, discussion groups and panel discussions, reflective research diary, tutorials

academic paper (minimum 7 - maximum 10 pages, MLA style): 60% workshop (presentation): 20% reflective research journal: 10% active participation: 10%

Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own" (essay) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (novel) Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (novel) Brian Friel, Translations (play) Dirty Pretty Things (film) assigned articles and poems

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: Oktober 2011