Course Ideas

The following links lead to individual Seminar Ideas and offer a place to communicate about seminars one would like to see created. Use the individual discussion pages for commentary and the main pages for topics such a seminar might focus on Student Wishes Anna Auguscik Jane Austen and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anton Kirchhofer The Booker Prize 2008 and the Culture of Literary Prizes The Cultural History of Shakespeare Literature in the Secondary School System Creation, Nature, Environment - Changing Conceptions in Literature and Culture Plots of Emancipation and Conversion - Writing Religious Experience. Fictions about Contemporaries - Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826) and Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point (1928) Obscure and Public Poetry in the 19c - Swinburne, Whitman, Hopkins, Dickinson Fictional Parsons - from Fielding to Golding Editing Shakespeare - the History of Shakespeare's 'Texts' From Theodicy to Political Economy - Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century 'Systems Theories' Theories of Literary Communication Public School Stories - Tom Hughes, Samuel Butler, Evelyn Waugh Girls' at School Children's Perspectives "National Allegories" - Allegory in Postcolonial Writing Modernism and Journalism Olaf Simons Chapbooks Ossian The Rise of the Future The Best of all Possible Worlds The Invention of Psychology The English Rogue and the German Simplicissimus Pornography Histories of English Literature Cinematic Violence Online Communication, Blogs and Wikipedia

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