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Animals in Anglophone Literature and Culture (AE_PSANML)- Lecturer
- Dr. Sandra Dinter
- Details
- Proseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 14:15 - 15:45, KH 0.023
- Contents
- The relationship between humans and animals is schizophrenic: we adore them as pets, in zoos and in Youtube videos, yet our society also hunts, kills and eats millions of animals every year. In the light of factory farming and species extinction, ‘veganism’ and ‘animal rights’ have become popular buzzwords. In this seminar, we will interrogate from a historically and theoretically informed perspective how and with which consequences human civilisation legitimises its distinction from and treatment of animals. Our aim is to explore how literature and culture have responded to these issues and have they have constructed the animal and its subjectivity. After an introduction to central concepts from the fields of ecocriticism, posthumanism and animal studies, we will discuss how animals have been represented in Anglophone poetry, narrative fiction and popular culture since the late nineteenth century.
- Recommended literature
- Among the works we will read in class are Virginia Woolf’s Flush (1933) and J.M. Coetzee’s Living with Animals (1999).
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 17.9.2018, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 6.10.2018, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Chair of English Literature and Culture (Prof. Dr. Feldmann)
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