Bei den auslaufenden Studiengängen ist dies ein HS. This semester, the classes for the Master of Education in English share the overarching concern with life writing/life narrative. As a consequence this seminar will interact with other classes in the program, especially the parallel seminar offered in English literature. We will probably engage in joint sessions (depending on time and room availability) and plan a joint, final project. This class concentrates both on theoretical approaches of writing lives and on a selection of fictional/semi-fictional and "factual" life narratives. We will concentrate on the questions: How do you "write a life"? Which scripts, master narratives or "blueprints" are involved? What makes a life story aesthetic or individual? Which forms are available for writing a life? In how far does narrative constitute our lives? Which conflicts/problems/strategies are constitutive for the discussed life narratives? A reader with the theoretical texts will be available by April at Sprintout (Georgenstraße/S-Bahn Bogen 190). Please sign yourself up for this class in the virtual classroom in Moodle! The key is "Lives" Reading (Lives): · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. · W.E.B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn (1940), New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2007. · Angela Davis, An Autobiography (1974), International Publishers, 1989. · Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father. A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995). New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004. · Boys Don't Cry (1999), dir. Kimberly Peirce, 114 min. · Alison Bechdel, Fun Home. A Family Trachicomic (2006). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Requirements: · In-class requirements: presentation on one of the topics in class (see syllabus). · MAP: see Studien- und Prüfungsordnung. |
