Zusätzliches Kursangebot im SS 2011
Introduction to Cultural Studies
Dozent: Hongwei Bao
Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft // Modul Grundmodul Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, GLK - 4 LP
Raum 1.19.1.16
mittwochs 16-18 Uhr
The course introduces students of English to basic concepts, key authors, texts and contemporary debates in cultural studies. It encourages students to analyse literature, film, popular cultural texts and the everyday life critically, and to develop skills in academic reading and writing in English.
THE NEW WOMAN IN BRITISH CULTURE
Dozentin: Frau Irmgard Maassen
Proseminar (3 LP)
Modul: A 4 LK
Raum 01.19.0.31
mittwochs, 16.15 - 17.45 Uhr
Towards the end of the 19th century, Victorian culture was scandalized by the emergence of a new type of femininity – the New Woman, toting cigarette and bicycle, earning her own money, campaigning for the vote, and experimenting with free love. Ridiculed by the popular press, anatomized on the stage, and melodramatically celebrated in the fiction of the day, the New Woman formed the female counterpart to the decadent Dandy, like him embodying the sexual anxieties of the fin de siècle. This seminar will look at the political context, such as the suffrage movement, the campaigns for the abolition of the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the debates on education, marriage, and eugenics, and will explore the representations of the figure across a variety of pamphlets, prose fiction and theatre plays.
Assessment: An oral presentation and an essay.
Required reading: Please purchase the following texts:
George Gissing, The Odd Women, ed. by Arlene Young (Broadview Literary Texts 2002) ISBN 1-55111-111-X
George Bernard Shaw, Mrs Warren’s Profession (any edition will do).
Other material, such as Grant Allen’s notorious novel The Woman Who Did (ed. Sarah Wintle, Oxford UP 1995), the play Votes for Women (1907) by Elizabeth Robins, and a number of essays and short stories by Sarah Grand, Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner and others, will be made available in a Reader.
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