2013 Negotiating History in Contemporary Fiction

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• Time: Mon, 08:00 - 10:00
• Venue: A01 0-007
• Lecturer: Anna Auguscik
• Modul: AM 15 Motifs - Themes - Issues (and their Media)

• Course Description: [...] Please, make sure to purchase and read these novels in advance. Your reading of them is prerequisite to the course. Please follow this link to a wiki course page, where you will find a preliminary course program, course requirements and course materials:

• Students should purchase and read in advance:

• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (2000)
• Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture (2003)

• Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here.

• Course Requirements

• Requirements for 6 KP: regular attendance and an oral contribution in the form of a presentation, with a term paper of ca. 10 pp. based on the topic of the presentation.
• Requirements for 9 KP: regular attendance and an oral contribution in the form of a presentation, with a term paper of ca. 15-20 pp. based on the topic of the presentation.
• 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 (z. B. Protokolle, Aufgaben, Vorbereitung/Lektüre von Texten) 
    - Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung aus dem Problembereich des Seminars, z.B. durch:
      *Übernahme von Impulsreferaten 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 (3.-5.Woche), Eingrenzung (ca. 8.-10.Woche), 
       Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (ca. 12.Woche), 
       Vorstellung der Fragestellung in der letzten Semestersitzung.

Session 1 Mo., 08.04.2013

• Introduction

Session 2 Mo., 15.04.2013

cancelled due to visit to the London Book Fair (15-17 April)

Session 3 Mo., 22.04.2013

• Atwood, TBA: narration, characterization, themes and plot structure

Session 4 Mo., 29.04.2013

• Barry, TSS: narration, characterization, themes and plot structure

Session 5 Mo., 06.05.2013

• Atwood, TBA and Barry, TSS: critical and marketing profiles

   [Specify research interest until 10 May]

Session 10 Mo., 17.06.2013

 [Hand in RPOs until 21 June]

Session 11 Mo., 24.06.2013

• evaluation

Session 12 Mo., 01.07.2013

• discussion of evaluation
• discussion of RPOs

Bibliography

Reading Material

• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (2000)
• Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture (2003)

and

Tools

• Handout: Traditions in our discourse about literature
• Handout: Narratology