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Seminar: 10-76-3-D1/WD1-10 Key Topics in Literature and Culture: Lighthouses in British Literature and Culture - Details

Seminar: 10-76-3-D1/WD1-10 Key Topics in Literature and Culture: Lighthouses in British Literature and Culture - Details

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Course name Seminar: 10-76-3-D1/WD1-10 Key Topics in Literature and Culture: Lighthouses in British Literature and Culture
Subtitle
Course number 10-76-3-D1/WD1-10
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Current number of participants 12
expected number of participants 25
Home institute Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
Next date Saturday, 13.12.2025 10:00 - 15:30, Room: GW2 B3010 (Kleiner Studierraum)
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja
Veranstaltung für ältere Erwachsene Yes

Rooms and times

GW2 B3010 (Kleiner Studierraum)
Saturday, 29.11.2025, Saturday, 13.12.2025 10:00 - 15:30
Saturday, 10.01.2026 10:00 - 17:00
Tuesday, 03.02.2026 10:00 - 15:30
Thursday, 05.02.2026 10:00 - 13:30

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This seminar will unfold over five appointments across the semester (dates below). Together, we’ll step into the world of the lighthouse in British literature and culture.
We’ll begin with Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse and continue with Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping. Midway, we’ll briefly cross the Atlantic for an American perspective, watching and discussing Robert Eggers’ 2019 movie The Lighthouse (starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe). Our exploration then turns to Wilkie Collins’ compact drama The Lighthouse, before closing with a selection of poems, short prose, and paintings that shed further light on this enduring symbol.
Alongside these primary works, theoretical frameworks and critical perspectives will help illuminate the cultural, symbolic, and aesthetic significance of lighthouses across literature.
Though a more detailed syllabus and information will follow in the first week of November, please save the following dates.
• November 29, 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Woolf, To the Lighthouse)
• December 13, 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Winterson, Lighthousekeeping)
• January 10, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. (Eggers, The Lighthouse)
• February 3, 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (Collins, The Lighthouse)
• February 5, 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. (various authors, short literary pieces)
Also, I kindly ask you to have these editions available:
• Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Oxford UP, 2008. (ISBN: 978-0-19-953661-0)
• Winterson, Jeanette. Lighthousekeeping. HarperCollins, 2005. (ISBN: 978-0-00-718150-6)
All other texts will be provided online.
Please make sure to read Woolf’s To the Lighthouse prior to our first session.
I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks and embarking on this lighthouse journey with you!

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