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Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-12 Key Topic in Literature: Visualising the Nineteenth Century - Details

Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-12 Key Topic in Literature: Visualising the Nineteenth Century - Details

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Course name Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-12 Key Topic in Literature: Visualising the Nineteenth Century
Subtitle
Course number 10-76-4-D2/WD2-12
Semester SoSe 2025
Current number of participants 8
expected number of participants 30
Home institute Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Wednesday, 09.04.2025 16:15 - 17:45, Room: GW2 B3010 (Kleiner Studierraum)
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

Rooms and times

GW2 B3010 (Kleiner Studierraum)
Wednesday: 16:15 - 17:45, weekly (13x)
Wednesday, 30.04.2025, Wednesday, 07.05.2025 18:00 - 20:00
No room preference
Wednesday: 16:15 - 17:45, weekly
GW2 B1400 (GESPERRT)
Wednesday, 18.06.2025 16:00 - 19:00
SFG 2040
Thursday, 19.06.2025 09:00 - 12:00

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Much nineteenth-century literature is inter-, multi-, or transmedial by nature. Many novels pair text with illustrations and/or were serialised, i.e. published in magazines or monthly parts before they were published in book form. Not only did these texts, therefore, appear over a period of many months, but individual instalments were also placed in the context of different texts and images in the course of their publication. In addition, writers occasionally re-wrote their own works for different media (turning a novel into a play, or vice versa). Finally, many nineteenth-century literary texts have had transmedial afterlives and have been adapted in different media, such as film and music. In this course, we will look at several of these phenomena to explore a range of relations between literature and other media in the nineteenth century.

Important Dates:
There will be two film evening where we will watch different film adaptations of Wuthering Heights together. These will take place on 30 April and 7 May, 6-8pm (i.e., right after class). There will also be a mini conference in two parts, on Wednesday, 11 June, 16.00-19.00 (i.e. regular class time plus one additional hour) and on Thursday, 12 June, 9.00-12.00. This mini conference, at which students will present their projects, will also be the final session of the course.

Required Reading:
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights. 1847. Preferred edition: Norton Critical Edition, 2003 (4th ed., ed. Richard J. Dunn)
Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop. 1841. Preferred edition: Penguin, 2000 (ed. Norman Page)
A selection of Romantic poems will be available on Stud.IP at the beginning of April.

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