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Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-14 The Novel in Theory, Practice and Crisis - Details

Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-14 The Novel in Theory, Practice and Crisis - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-14 The Novel in Theory, Practice and Crisis
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Veranstaltungsnummer 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-14
Semester SoSe 2025
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 23
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 20
Heimat-Einrichtung Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Vorbesprechung Donnerstag, 10.04.2025 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: GW1 B1070
Erster Termin Donnerstag, 10.04.2025 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: GW1 B1070
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Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

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GW1 B1070
Donnerstag: 10:15 - 11:45, wöchentlich (12x)

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The last decade has seen a virulent debate about what the novel can and cannot do. In 2016, Indian writer Amitav Ghosh prominently accused modern literature, and specifically the realist novel, as failing to adequately address the challenges surrounding climate change. Currently, despite growing media competition and frequent expressions of cultural pessimism, reading habits among young people, and especially an interest in genre fiction, seem to be on the rise. Indeed, like literature and the humanities, the novel has frequently been placed in a state of perpetual crisis. At the same time, it has often found ways to remodel, renew, and re-form. Now a century ago, modernist writers, such as Virginia Woolf or James Joyce, experimented with narration, focalization and characterization in order to tackle themes of political, social, and psychological transformations. This seminar aims to compare the status of the novel in the 1910s/20s with debates of the long narrative form in the 2010s/2020s. Apart from reading examples of novels in which writers take up the challenges of representation, we will focus especially on diverse perspectives on the novel, from modern theories of the novel to contemporary creative writing manuals.
Please, buy and read the following novels:
• Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway. 1925. Oxford: OUP, 2008. [ISBN: 978-0199536009]
• Jaspreet Singh. Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene. Victoria, BC: Touchwood Editions, 2022. [ISBN: 978-1-927366-97-4]

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