Difference between revisions of "2017-18 AM Time Travel: The 'Chronology Paradox' in 19C and 20C Literature"
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| − | This course consists of two parts: a theoretical and a historical overview of time travel and its literary representations. | + | This course consists of two parts: a theoretical and a historical overview of time travel and its literary representations. At first, we will learn about the theory of time travel based on a reading of classic SF short stories from 20C writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin, as well as scientific and scholarly papers on the science and philosophy of time, chronology, linearity and the paradoxes involved in digressions from and variations of these concepts. In the second part of our course, we will go back in time to read our two main, though very different examples of time travel: H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895) and Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). In addition, students will be asked to peruse Ann and Jeff VanderMere’s The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013) and become experts on one of the authors included in the anthology and their particular take on time travel and its (literary) paradoxes. |
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| − | At first, we will learn about the theory of time travel based on a reading of classic SF short stories from 20C writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin, as well as scientific and scholarly papers on the science and philosophy of time, chronology, linearity and the paradoxes involved in digressions from and variations of these concepts. | + | |
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| − | In the second part of our course, we will go back in time to read our two main, though very different examples of time travel: H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895) and Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). | + | |
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Please, make sure to purchase the following three books in advance. Your reading of the first two is prerequisite to the course. The third book will be used in chunks and can be perused at leisure. | Please, make sure to purchase the following three books in advance. Your reading of the first two is prerequisite to the course. The third book will be used in chunks and can be perused at leisure. | ||
| − | #H.G. Wells, The Time Machine | + | #H.G. Wells, The Time Machine [1895]. Norton |
| − | #Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol | + | #Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol [1843]. Penguin |
#Ann and Jeff VanderMere, The Time Traveler's Almanac | #Ann and Jeff VanderMere, The Time Traveler's Almanac | ||
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===Session 1: 19.10.2017=== | ===Session 1: 19.10.2017=== | ||
| − | + | *Course syllabus, requirements, etc. | |
| − | *Course syllabus | + | *Introduction: time travel and its discursive settings |
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| − | ===Session | + | ===Session 2: 26.10.2017=== |
| − | * | + | *Robert A. Heinlein, "All You Zombies" (1960) |
| − | *Time Travel | + | *Presentation: Time Travel Paradoxes |
| + | *Secondary Reading: Lewis, "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" (1976) | ||
| − | ===Session | + | ===Session 3: 02.11.2017=== |
| − | *Time Travel and | + | *Robert A. Heinlein, "By His Bootstraps" (1941) |
| − | * | + | *Presentation: Time Travel and Narrative |
| + | *Secondary Reading: Slusser and Chatelelain, "Spacetime Geometries" (1995) | ||
| − | ===Session | + | ===Session 4: 09.11.2017=== |
| − | *The Time | + | *VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014) |
| + | *Reading and Group Work | ||
| − | ===Session | + | ===Session 5: 16.11.2017=== |
| + | *H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) | ||
| + | *Textual Analysis and Close Reading | ||
| − | *The Time Machine | + | ===Session 6: 23.11.2017=== |
| − | *Secondary Reading: | + | *H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) |
| + | *Presentation: The many versions of The Time Machine | ||
| + | *Secondary Reading: Bergonzi, "The Time Machine: An Ironic Myth" (1976) | ||
===Session 7: 30.11.2017: Wells=== | ===Session 7: 30.11.2017: Wells=== | ||
| − | *The Time Machine | + | *H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) |
| − | * | + | *Presentation: The historical contexts of The Time Machine |
| + | *Secondary Reading: Gomel, "Shapes of the Past and the Future: Darwin and the Narratology of Time Travel" (2009) | ||
| − | ===Session 8: 07.12.2017 | + | ===Session 8: 07.12.2017=== |
| − | * | + | *VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014) |
| − | * | + | *Reading and Group Work |
| − | ===Session 9: 14.12.2017 | + | ===Session 9: 14.12.2017=== |
| − | *Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol | + | *Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843) |
| + | *Textual Analysis and Close Reading | ||
===Session 10: 21.12.2017: Pre-Wells III=== | ===Session 10: 21.12.2017: Pre-Wells III=== | ||
| − | *Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol | + | *Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843) |
| + | *Presentation: Ghosts and other means of time travel prior to The Time Machine | ||
*Secondary Reading | *Secondary Reading | ||
===Session 11: 11.01.2018=== | ===Session 11: 11.01.2018=== | ||
| − | * | + | *VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014) |
| + | *Reading and Group Work | ||
| + | *Presentations | ||
===Session 12: 18.01.2018=== | ===Session 12: 18.01.2018=== | ||
| − | * | + | *VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014) |
| + | *Reading and Group Work | ||
| + | *Presentations | ||
===Session 13: 25.01.2018=== | ===Session 13: 25.01.2018=== | ||
Revision as of 22:43, 16 October 2017
- NEW Time: Tue, 14:00-16:00
- NEW Venue: A6 0-001
- Course: 3.02.151
- Lecturer: Anna Auguscik
- Modul: ang615 Motifs - Themes - Issues (and their Media)
- Course Description:
This course consists of two parts: a theoretical and a historical overview of time travel and its literary representations. At first, we will learn about the theory of time travel based on a reading of classic SF short stories from 20C writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin, as well as scientific and scholarly papers on the science and philosophy of time, chronology, linearity and the paradoxes involved in digressions from and variations of these concepts. In the second part of our course, we will go back in time to read our two main, though very different examples of time travel: H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895) and Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). In addition, students will be asked to peruse Ann and Jeff VanderMere’s The Time Traveler's Almanac (2013) and become experts on one of the authors included in the anthology and their particular take on time travel and its (literary) paradoxes.
Please, make sure to purchase the following three books in advance. Your reading of the first two is prerequisite to the course. The third book will be used in chunks and can be perused at leisure.
- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine [1895]. Norton
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol [1843]. Penguin
- Ann and Jeff VanderMere, The Time Traveler's Almanac
PLEASE NOTE: All primary materials will be made available at the CvO bookshop.
- Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP. There will be a Handapparat in our library.
- Course Requirements
- Requirements for 6 KP: regular attendance and a (oral/)written contribution in the form of either a presentation + written outline (10-12 pp) or seminar paper (15 pp), with based on the topic of the seminar.
- As part of the "Aktive Teilnahme" regulation:
Die aktive Teilnahme besteht aus folgenden Komponenten
- regelmäßige Anwesenheit: max. 2 Abwesenheiten und gegebenenfalls Nacharbeit
- Vor- und Nachbereitung des Seminarstoffs (Expertengruppen, Vorbereitung/Lektüre von Texten)
- Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung aus dem Problembereich des Seminars, durch:
*Übernahme von Ergebnispräsentationen und
*(nur falls Seminararbeit angestrebt, verschriftlicht, ansonsten als Teil der Präsentation)
Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters (die Zeitangaben verstehen sich als Empfehlungen):
Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis 25.April),
Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis ###),
Vorstellung der Fragestellung in der letzten Semestersitzung.
Contents
- 1 Session 1: 19.10.2017
- 2 Session 2: 26.10.2017
- 3 Session 3: 02.11.2017
- 4 Session 4: 09.11.2017
- 5 Session 5: 16.11.2017
- 6 Session 6: 23.11.2017
- 7 Session 7: 30.11.2017: Wells
- 8 Session 8: 07.12.2017
- 9 Session 9: 14.12.2017
- 10 Session 10: 21.12.2017: Pre-Wells III
- 11 Session 11: 11.01.2018
- 12 Session 12: 18.01.2018
- 13 Session 13: 25.01.2018
- 14 Session 14: 01.02.2018
- 15 Materials
- 16 Links
Session 1: 19.10.2017
- Course syllabus, requirements, etc.
- Introduction: time travel and its discursive settings
Session 2: 26.10.2017
- Robert A. Heinlein, "All You Zombies" (1960)
- Presentation: Time Travel Paradoxes
- Secondary Reading: Lewis, "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" (1976)
Session 3: 02.11.2017
- Robert A. Heinlein, "By His Bootstraps" (1941)
- Presentation: Time Travel and Narrative
- Secondary Reading: Slusser and Chatelelain, "Spacetime Geometries" (1995)
Session 4: 09.11.2017
- VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014)
- Reading and Group Work
Session 5: 16.11.2017
- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
- Textual Analysis and Close Reading
Session 6: 23.11.2017
- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
- Presentation: The many versions of The Time Machine
- Secondary Reading: Bergonzi, "The Time Machine: An Ironic Myth" (1976)
Session 7: 30.11.2017: Wells
- H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
- Presentation: The historical contexts of The Time Machine
- Secondary Reading: Gomel, "Shapes of the Past and the Future: Darwin and the Narratology of Time Travel" (2009)
Session 8: 07.12.2017
- VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014)
- Reading and Group Work
Session 9: 14.12.2017
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
- Textual Analysis and Close Reading
Session 10: 21.12.2017: Pre-Wells III
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
- Presentation: Ghosts and other means of time travel prior to The Time Machine
- Secondary Reading
Session 11: 11.01.2018
- VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014)
- Reading and Group Work
- Presentations
Session 12: 18.01.2018
- VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014)
- Reading and Group Work
- Presentations
Session 13: 25.01.2018
- Final Discussion
- evaluation
[Hand in RPOs until ### at the latest]
Session 14: 01.02.2018
- discussion of RPOs
- feedback on evaluation
[Hand in research papers until 28 February]
Materials
Bibliography
Tools
- Handout: Traditions in our discourse about literature
- Handout: Narratology
- Handout: (Non-)literary texts
- Handout: Excerpt
