2017-18 AM Time Travel: The 'Chronology Paradox' in 19C and 20C Literature

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• Time: Thu, 12:00-14:00
• Venue: A14 112
• Course: ###
• Lecturer: Anna Auguscik
• Modul: ang615 Motifs - Themes - Issues (and their Media)

• Course Description:

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. H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
2. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
3. 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.

Session 1 Tue, 04 April

• Introduction
• Course syllabus

Session 2 Tue, 11 April

• Historical and Theoretical Contexts

Session 3 Tue, 18 April

• Textual Analysis 1:
• Close Reading:

Session 4 Tue, 25 April

• Textual Analysis 2:
• Close Reading

Session 5 Tue, 02 May

• Textual Analysis 3:
• Close Readings

Session 6 Tue, 09 May

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 7 Tue, 16 May

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 8 Tue, 23 May

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 9 Tue, 30 May

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 10 Tue, 06 June

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 11 Tue, 13 June

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 12 Tue, 20 June

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 13 Tue, 27 June

• Final Discussion
• evaluation

  [Hand in RPOs until ### at the latest]

Session 14 Tue, 04 July

• 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