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Seminar: 10-M80-3-SpecMo-05 Fictions of Publishing - Details

Seminar: 10-M80-3-SpecMo-05 Fictions of Publishing - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: 10-M80-3-SpecMo-05 Fictions of Publishing
Untertitel
Veranstaltungsnummer 10-M80-3-SpecMo-05
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 25
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Nächster Termin Mittwoch, 10.12.2025 16:15 - 17:45, Ort: SFG 2030
Art/Form Seminar
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

Räume und Zeiten

SFG 2030
Mittwoch: 16:15 - 17:45, wöchentlich (13x)
Keine Raumangabe
Mittwoch: 16:15 - 17:45, wöchentlich(1x)

Modulzuordnungen

  • Universität Bremen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

Our contemporary notion of ‘literature’ goes back to the differentiation between academic knowledge production and the ‘literary’ – a field of production as well as debate, borrowing variously from traditions in historiography, poesie, rhetoric, and the ‘belles lettres’ – in the eighteenth-century book market. The analysis of literature from the perspective of publishing allows for a consideration of its economic, social, and cultural contexts. In this seminar, students will become familiar with the historically and regionally specific conditions of the literary marketplace (such as copyright), the constitution of and interaction between key participants (booksellers, authors, readers, critics), and the notion of literary value and its development from the early eighteenth century onwards based on secondary sources from the sociology of literature, publishing studies and the history of the book.
Our specific entry point, however, will be those literary and cultural productions which themselves take an interest in their publishing contexts: visual and textual representations of the book market, its conditions and major players, which use the means of fiction to display, expose and often make fun of the ‘fictions’ of publishing. We will frame the seminar with a discussion of the contemporary literary marketplace, guided by the topic of diversity in publishing, starting with the comedy-drama American Fiction (2023, dir. Cord Jefferson) and culminating in a reading of R.F. Kuang’s novel Yellowface (2023). This interest in the production, circulation, and reception of literature today will be compared and contrasted with a discussion of the book market in the eighteenth century, based on Jonathan Swift’s satire Tale of a Tub (1704), and the nineteenth century, based on George Gissing’s novel New Grub Street (1891).
Please, buy and watch the following film:
- American Fiction (2023, dir. Cord Jefferson)
Please, buy and read the following novels:
- George Gissing, New Grub Street [1891]. London: Penguin, 1891. ISBN: 9780140430325
- R.F. Kuang. Yellowface. New York: HarperCollins, 2023. ISBN: 978-0-00-853281-9

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