Difference between revisions of "2018-19 AM Excavation Sites: Archaeology in/and Literature from Ozymandias to Ondaatje"

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• Modul: ang615 Motifs - Themes - Issues (and their Media)
• Lecturer: Anna Auguscik

• Course I: 3.02.151
• Time: Thu, 8-10am
• Venue: A14 0-031

• Course II: 3.02.152
• Time: Wed, 10-12am
• Venue: A14 1-113

• Course Description: In this seminar, we will explore the intersections between archaeology and literature with a focus on the young science's representation in works of fiction and poetry from the early 19C until today. We will read poems by P.B. Shelley, D.G. Rossetti, and Oscar Wilde; excerpts from Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Barry Unsworth's historical fiction, and Deborah Levy's short fiction; as well as longer narrative texts by H. Rider Haggard, Agatha Christie, and Michael Ondaatje. Topics will include archaeological sites at home & abroad, archaeology & empire, archaeology & gender, archaeology & mystery, archaeology as a metaphor (e.g. excavating deep psychological structures), amateur vs. professional archaeology, and the archaeologist as a fictional character.

Please, buy and read the following novels:

• H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines. 1885. Oxford: Oxford World's Classics, 2016. [978-0198722953]
• Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia. 1936. London: HarperCollins, 2016. [978-0008164874]
• Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost. 2000. London: Vintage, 2011. [978-0099554455]

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 (Gruppenarbeit) 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 xx), 
       Vorstellung der Fragestellung (letzte Semestersitzung).

Session 1: 18.10.2018

• Course syllabus, requirements, etc.
• Introduction: Antiquarianism vs. Archaeology, Archaeology & Literature & Deep History
• Course Reading: Guillermo Abril und Carlos Spottorno, "Mitten ins Herz." Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin 38 (21.Sept 2018): xx-xx.

Session 2: 25.10.2018

• Archaeology and 19C Literature
• Context: Julia Reid, "Archaeology and Anthropology" (2017)
• Primary Literature: PB Shelley, "Ozymandias" (1818)
• Secondary Literature: Anne Janowitz, "Shelley's Monument to Ozymandias" (1984)

Session 3: 01.11.2018

• Archaeology and Victorian Literature
• Context: Angie Blumberg, "Victorian Literature and Archaeology" (2018)
• Primary Literature: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Burden of Nineveh"
• Secondary Reading: Andrew M. Stauffer, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Burdens of Nineveh" (2005)

• Further Primary Reading Oscar Wilde, "Sphinx"; Hardy, etc.
• Further Secondary Literature: Iain Ross, "Charmides and The Sphinx: Wilde's Engagements with Keats"(2008)

Session 4: 08.11.2018

• Theory and Methods I: JLS issue
• Course Reading: Alexandra Warwick and Martin Willis, "Introduction: The Archaeological Imagination" (2012)

Session 5: 15.11.2018

• 19C Fiction: Haggard

Session 6: 22.11.2018

• 19C Fiction: Haggard

Session 7: 29.11.2018

• Theory and Methods II: Modernism/modernity issue

Session 8: 06.12.2018

• 20C Fiction: Agatha Christie

Session 9: 13.12.2018

• 20C Fiction: Agatha Christie

Session 10: 20.12.2018

• Theory and Methods III: ZAA / Aspects of the Science Novel

Session 11: 10.01.2019

• Archaeology in 21C Fiction
• Primary Literature: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)
• Secondary Literature: Michael Barry, "Archaeology and Teleology in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost" (2015)

Session 12: 17.01.2019

• Archaeology in 21C Fiction
• Primary Literature: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)

Session 13: 24.01.2019

• Final Discussion
• evaluation

  [Hand in RPOs until xx at the latest]

Session 14: 31.01.2019

• discussion of RPOs
• feedback on evaluation

  [Hand in research papers until 15 March]

Materials

• cf. three novels above
• additional primary material:
  • Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles [1891]. Oxford World's Classics, 2008. [978-0199537051]
  • Barry Unsworth, Land of Marvels. London: Windmill, 2009. [978-0099534549]
  • Deborah Levy, Black Vodka. Bucks: And Other Stories, 2013. [978-1908276162]

Tools

• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout: Narratology
• Handout: Traditions in our discourse about literature
• Handout: (Non-)literary texts
• Handout: Excerpt

Further Reading

Links