551.335 (17W) Advanced Topics in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies”: The Storyworlds of Toni Morrison
Überblick
- Lehrende/r
- LV-Titel englisch Advanced Topics in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies”: The Storyworlds of Toni Morrison
- LV-Art Seminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
- Semesterstunde/n 2.0
- ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 8.0
- Anmeldungen 9 (20 max.)
- Organisationseinheit
- Unterrichtssprache Englisch
- mögliche Sprache/n der Leistungserbringung Englisch
- LV-Beginn 17.10.2017
- eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs
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Anmerkungen
This is a block seminar. Attendance of the first double session on October 17 is mandatory!
Zeit und Ort
LV-Beschreibung
Inhalt/e
This seminar examines select novels by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison. We will explore both the complex interior worlds of Morrison’s characters and their conflicted relationships to the no less complex storyworlds that envelop them, storyworls shaped by race and gender prejudice and by various forms of institutionalized racism. We will start out by discussing an excerpt from Morrison's Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) and then read and discuss five of her novels--The Bluest Eye (1970), Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987), and Home (2012)--asking ourselves how they thematize interwoven issues of race, gender, and culture in American history and society.
Literatur
Toni Morrison. The Bluest Eye. Any edition.
-----. Sula. Any edition.
-----. Song of Solomon. Any edition.
-----. Beloved. Any edition.
-----. Home. Any edition.
All other texts will be provided by the instructor.
Prüfungsinformationen
Prüfungsmethode/n
Response paper (2000 words)
Final paper (4000 words)
Prüfungsinhalt/e
Students will write a response paper on one of the assigned novels. Free choice of topic by students for the final paper, as long as there is a focus on Toni Morrison.
Beurteilungskriterien/-maßstäbe
Final Grade: 30% - active participation; 30% - response paper; 40% - final paper
Beurteilungsschema
Note BenotungsschemaPosition im Curriculum
- Masterstudium Anglistik und Amerikanistik
(SKZ: 812, Version: 11W.1)
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Fach: Film, Literature and Culture Studies
(Wahlfach)
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Advanced Topics in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” (
0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
- 551.335 Advanced Topics in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies”: The Storyworlds of Toni Morrison (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
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Advanced Topics in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies” (
0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
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Fach: Film, Literature and Culture Studies
(Wahlfach)
- Masterstudium Game Studies and Engineering
(SKZ: 992, Version: 17W.2)
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Fach: Gebundenes Wahlfach
(Wahlfach)
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Modul: Game Studies
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4.2 Advanced Topics in Film, Literature and Culture Studies (
0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
- 551.335 Advanced Topics in „Film, Literature and Culture Studies”: The Storyworlds of Toni Morrison (2.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 1., 2., 3. Semester empfohlen
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4.2 Advanced Topics in Film, Literature and Culture Studies (
0.0h SE / 8.0 ECTS)
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Modul: Game Studies
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Fach: Gebundenes Wahlfach
(Wahlfach)