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With the successful completion of the seminar, students have adopted theoretical approaches in the field of emotion and postcolonial studies. They have also dealt with the complex genre of travel literature and are able to distinguish aesthetics and foci as well as temporal and spatial specifics.

“Mais les vrais voyageurs sont ceux-là seuls qui partent

Pour partir; coeurs légers, semblables aux ballons,

De leur fatalité jamais ils ne s'écartent,

Et, sans savoir pourquoi, disent toujours: Allons!”

In his Fleurs du mal Baudelaire dedicated the poem Le Voyage to Maxime du Camp. At the end of the 19^th century he traveled several times, also accompanied by Gustave Flaubert, to the “Orient”. Unlike in Baudelaire's lyrical description du Camp, journalist and pioneer of yet new art of photography, does start his voyage with plenty of causes, as well as Flaubert who by no means was an impartial traveler. His Carnets de Voyage bear witness just as the motifs that can be found after the trip in his novels.

The seminar explores “oriental” travel literature at the end of the 19^th  and beginning of the 20^th  century, including literature, film and photgraphy. Special attention is paid to the moments and the interplay of “discovering – feeling” framing these texts form an innovative, theoretical point of view.

Ability for reading English texts is required! Willingness to read French and Spanish texts, which will also be available in German translations, is kindly requested.

General introduction; essays / responses; active group analysis and discussion; term paper.

essay or two respones;

Term paper;

Participation in analyzing and discussing texts.

To be announced.