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), 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 
      *Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters: 
       Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis letzte Sitzung vor Weihnachten),
       Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis 24. Jan), 
       Vorstellung der Fragestellung (letzte Semestersitzung).


Session 1: 17/18 Oct 2018

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

Session 2: 24/25 Oct 2018

  • Topic: Archaeology and 19C Literature
  • Context: Julia Reid, "Archaeology and Anthropology" (2017)
  • Primary Literature: Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" (1818)
  • Input Presentation/Secondary Reading: Anne Janowitz, "Shelley's Monument to Ozymandias" (1984)

Session 3: 1 Nov 2018

  • Topic: Archaeology and Victorian Literature
  • Context: Angie Blumberg, "Victorian Literature and Archaeology" (2018)
  • Primary Literature: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Burden of Nineveh" (1856/1870)
  • Input Presentation/ Secondary Reading: Andrew M. Stauffer, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Burdens of Nineveh" (2005)
  • Input Presentation/ Primary Reading: Oscar Wilde, "Sphinx" (1894)

Session 4: 7/8 Nov 2018

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

Session 5: 14/15 Nov 2018

  • Topic: Archaeology in 19C Fiction
  • Primary Literature: H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (1885)
  • Focus on Close Reading

Session 6: 21/22 Nov 2018

  • Topic: Archaeology and 19C Fiction
  • Context: Neil E. Hultgren, "Haggard Criticism since 1980: Imperial Romance Before and After the Postcolonial Turn" (2011)
  • Primary Literature: H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (1885)
  • Input Presentation/Secondary Reading: Timothy Alborn, "King Solomon’s Gold: Ophir in an Age of Empire" (2015)
  • Input Presentation/Primary Reading: Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)

Session 7: 28/29 Nov 2018

  • Course Reading: Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Michael Shanks, Matthew Tiews, "Archaeology, Modernism, Modernity" (2004)
  • Group Work / Theory and Methods II: Modernism/modernity issue

Session 8: 05/06 Dec 2018

  • Archaeology in 20C Fiction
  • Primary Literature: Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
  • Focus on Close Reading

Session 9: 12/13 Dec 2018

  • Archaeology in 20C Fiction
  • Context: Gabriel Moshenska, "Archaeologists in Popular Fiction" (2017)
  • Primary Literature: Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)
  • Input Presentation/Secondary Reading: tba [archaeology in crime / detective fiction]
  • Input Presentation/Primary Reading: Barry Unsworth, Land of Marvels (2009)

Session 10: 19/20 Dec 2018

  • Group Work / Theory and Methods III: ZAA / Aspects of the Science Novel
  • Course Reading: Anton Kirchhofer and Natalie Roxburgh, "The Scientist as ‘Problematic Individual’ in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction" (2016)

Session 11: 09/10 Jan 2019

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

Session 12: 16/17 Jan 2019

  • Archaeology in 21C Fiction
  • Context: David Babcock, "Professional Intimacies: Human Rights and Specialized Bodies in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost" (2014)
  • Primary Literature: Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost (2000)
  • Input Presentation/Secondary Reading: David Farrier, "Gesturing towards the Local: Intimate Histories in Anil's Ghost" (2005)
  • Input Presentation/Secondary Reading: Michael Barry, "Archaeology and Teleology in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost" (2015)
  • Input Presentation/Primary Reading: Deborah Levy, Black Vodka (2013)

Session 13: 23/24 Jan 2019

  • Final Discussion
  • evaluation
  [Hand in RPOs until 24 January at the latest]

Session 14: 30/31 Jan 2019

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

Tools

Primary Reading

  • cf. three novels above (available at CvO bookshop)
  • additional primary material:
    • Oscar Wilde, "Sphinx" [1894].
    • 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]

Secondary Reading

  • will be made available via Stud.IP, cf. also Handapparat

Further Reading

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