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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'' [1895]. Norton
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#Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol [1843] and other Other Writings. Ed. Michael Slater. London et al.: Penguin, 2003.
#Charles Dickens, ''A Christmas Carol'' [1843]. Penguin
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#H.G. Wells, The Time Machine [1895]. Ed. Stephen Arata. New York and London: Norton, 2009.
#Ann and Jeff VanderMere, ''The Time Traveler's Almanac''. (2013)
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#Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, eds. The Time Traveler's Almanac. New York: Tor, 2013.
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PLEASE NOTE: All primary materials will be made available at the CvO bookshop.  
 
PLEASE NOTE: All primary materials will be made available at the CvO bookshop.  
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*Reading and Group Work
 
*Reading and Group Work
  
===Session 3: 31.10.2017===
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===Session 3: 31.10.2017 - REFORMATIONSTAG===
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===Session 4: 07.11.2017===
 
*Robert A. Heinlein, "All You Zombies" (1959)
 
*Robert A. Heinlein, "All You Zombies" (1959)
*Presentation: Time Travel Paradoxes
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*Presentation: Time Travel Paradoxes  
 
*Secondary Reading: Lewis, "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" (1976)
 
*Secondary Reading: Lewis, "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" (1976)
  
===Session 4: 07.11.2017===
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===Session 5: 14.11.2017===
 
*Robert A. Heinlein, "By His Bootstraps" (1941)
 
*Robert A. Heinlein, "By His Bootstraps" (1941)
 
*Presentation: Time Travel and Narrative
 
*Presentation: Time Travel and Narrative
 
*Secondary Reading: Slusser and Chatelelain, "Spacetime Geometries" (1995)
 
*Secondary Reading: Slusser and Chatelelain, "Spacetime Geometries" (1995)
  
===Session 5: 14.11.2017===
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===Session 6: 21.11.2017===
 
*H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
 
*H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
 
*Textual Analysis and Close Reading
 
*Textual Analysis and Close Reading
  
===Session 6: 21.11.2017===
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===Session 7: 28.11.2017===
 
*H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
 
*H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
 
*Presentation: The many versions of The Time Machine
 
*Presentation: The many versions of The Time Machine
 
*Secondary Reading: Bergonzi, "The Time Machine: An Ironic Myth" (1976)
 
*Secondary Reading: Bergonzi, "The Time Machine: An Ironic Myth" (1976)
  
===Session 7: 28.11.2017===
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===Session 8: 05.12.2017===
 
*H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
 
*H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
 
*Presentation: The Time Machine in cultural context
 
*Presentation: The Time Machine in cultural context
 
*Secondary Reading: Gomel, "Shapes of the Past and the Future: Darwin and the Narratology of Time Travel" (2009)
 
*Secondary Reading: Gomel, "Shapes of the Past and the Future: Darwin and the Narratology of Time Travel" (2009)
 
===Session 8: 05.12.2017===
 
*VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014)
 
*Presentations
 
  
 
===Session 9: 12.12.2017===
 
===Session 9: 12.12.2017===
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===Session 10: 19.12.2017===
 
===Session 10: 19.12.2017===
 
*Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
 
*Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
*Presentation: Ghosts and other means of time travel prior to The Time Machine
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*Presentation: Ghosts and other means of time travel prior to The Time Machine  
 
*Secondary Reading
 
*Secondary Reading
  

Revision as of 17:09, 17 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.

  1. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol [1843] and other Other Writings. Ed. Michael Slater. London et al.: Penguin, 2003.
  2. H.G. Wells, The Time Machine [1895]. Ed. Stephen Arata. New York and London: Norton, 2009.
  3. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, eds. The Time Traveler's Almanac. New York: Tor, 2013.


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. 3 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 
      *(falls HA schriftlich, falls P+Ausarbeitung mündlich als Teil der Präsentation)
       Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters: 
       Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis letzte Sitzung vor Weihnachten),
       Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis 26.Jan), 
       Vorstellung der Fragestellung (letzte Semestersitzung).


Session 1: 17.10.2017

  • Course syllabus, requirements, etc.
  • Introduction: "time travel" and its discursive settings

Session 2: 24.10.2017

  • VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014)
  • Reading and Group Work

Session 3: 31.10.2017 - REFORMATIONSTAG

Session 4: 07.11.2017

  • Robert A. Heinlein, "All You Zombies" (1959)
  • Presentation: Time Travel Paradoxes
  • Secondary Reading: Lewis, "The Paradoxes of Time Travel" (1976)

Session 5: 14.11.2017

  • Robert A. Heinlein, "By His Bootstraps" (1941)
  • Presentation: Time Travel and Narrative
  • Secondary Reading: Slusser and Chatelelain, "Spacetime Geometries" (1995)

Session 6: 21.11.2017

  • H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
  • Textual Analysis and Close Reading

Session 7: 28.11.2017

  • 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 8: 05.12.2017

  • H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895)
  • Presentation: The Time Machine in cultural context
  • Secondary Reading: Gomel, "Shapes of the Past and the Future: Darwin and the Narratology of Time Travel" (2009)

Session 9: 12.12.2017

  • Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
  • Textual Analysis and Close Reading

Session 10: 19.12.2017

  • Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
  • Presentation: Ghosts and other means of time travel prior to The Time Machine
  • Secondary Reading

Session 11: 09.01.2018

  • VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014)
  • Presentations

Session 12: 16.01.2018

  • VanderMeer and VanderMeer, The Time Traveller's Almanac (2014)
  • Presentations

Session 13: 23.01.2018

  • Final Discussion
  • evaluation
  [Hand in RPOs until 26 January at the latest]

Session 14: 30.01.2018

  • discussion of RPOs
  • feedback on evaluation
  [Hand in research papers until 15 March]

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