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The Fable (AN_PSFable)- Lecturer
- Marleen Waffler, M.A.
- Details
- Proseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 9:45 - 11:15, 1.121
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Proseminar Literature gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies (neu): Zwischenmodul II Literature
Lehramt an Gymnasien (neu): Zwischenmodul L-GYM (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literature)
Lehramt Englisch an Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen (neu):
Seminarmodul L-UF Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Elementarmodul L-UF Literature)
- Contents
- Encompassing both fiction and reality, fables offer a fascinating combination of an imaginative text of varying length as well as a simultaneous underlying engagement with life, in the form of human behaviour and manners in all its nuances, its follies and vices. It is precisely this mixture and its omission of a paradigmatic conclusion which may encourage readers to think for themselves and thus provoke their ability to transfer the particular subject of the narrative to a more abstract, general condition of human conduct or interaction.
In this seminar, we will examine the development of the genre from antiquity to the Middle Ages and the Age of Reason to contemporary times. In doing so, we will analyse works by Aesop, John Gay, James Thurber and Angela Carter against the background of changing theoretical approaches and conceptions in regard to style, form and even possible definitions and boundaries of the genre.
Students wishing to participate in the seminar are required to have accquired the works indicated below by the beginning of term. All additional reading will be made available on StudOn.
- Recommended literature
- Aesop, The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber (Penguin Classics)
John Gay, Selected Poems (Fyfield Books)
James Thurber, Fables for Our Time
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 18.3.2019, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 13.4.2019, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Chair of Teaching Foreign Languages with the Focus of Teaching English Language (N.N.)
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