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This course is part of a one-term Master of Education teaching project linking "Fachdidaktik" and "Fachwissenschaft" (English Literature). We aim to investigate a range of modes and processes of life writing from different perspecives: - life writing for (and in) professional teacher education, - life writing as a literary and cultural phenomenon and, finally, - life writing in terms of writing processes. The teaching project comprises two courses and as we will seek to make cross-references between them, they are ideally to be studied alongside each other. Nevertheless, each course may be studied individually. In this particular course, we aim to investigate a broad range of life writings (i.e. autobiographies, biographies, diaries, letters, obituaries, internet blogs etc.) in British literature and culture from the modernist period to the present. Against the backdrop of their potential significance for school teaching, we shall study and discuss 'traditional' critical issues such as the construction of identity/self/selves in and through specific narratives, engage with crucial theoretical issues (class, gender, postcolonialism; the textual and narrative nature of the self), look at electronic rewritings of auto/biographical genres, and finally perhaps engage in our own creative writing exercises. Please obtain your own copies of 1. Carolyn Steedman: Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Women (Virago Classic non-fiction). 2. Jackie Kay. Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe Books) 3. Jan Morris: Conundrum (Faber & Faber). |
