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  PS/MS The World of Things: Commodities in British Literature and Culture (AE_PSThings)

Lecturer
Ronja Holzinger, M.A.

Details
PS (MS, PO 2020)
Online
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Zeit: Mon 10:15 - 11:45

Prerequisites / Organisational information
Das Mittelseminar gehört zu folgenden Modulen:

  • BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II (Culture)

  • BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II (Literature)

  • Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature

Voraussetzungen für den Besuch: Erfolgreicher Abschluss der GOP; in der Regel: Erfolgreicher Abschluss des Zwischenmoduls I (Thematisches Kombinationsmodul) Scheinerwerb: Referat + Hausarbeit

Contents
In this seminar we will research various aspects of commodity and consumer culture in British literature and culture. Considering the changes consumer society underwent during the nineteenth century we will study (colonial) commodities, their consumption, and the effects on subjects and bodies as well as the activity of shopping and its functions in (social and individual) identity formations. Further, we will examine (excessive) consumers and investigate ideologies of consumerism in (dystopian) literary representations of (post)modern societies. Our material will include advertisements and other visual material as well as various literary and non-literary texts. In our analysis we will refer to concepts such as identity, (imagined) community, power, ideology, and desire, and we follow approaches from gender as well as postcolonial studies. Our reading will include Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic (2000), J.G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come (2006), as well as excerpts from other shorter texts.
Due to the pandemic this course will take place online. Please prepare the reading in advance.

Recommended literature
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) [Penguin Classics]

  • Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic (2000) [The Dial Press]

  • J.G. Ballard’s Kingdom Come (2006) [Harper Perennial]

Additional information
Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 1.3.2021, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 17.4.2021, 22.00 über: mein Campus.

Department: Chair of English Literature and Culture (Prof. Dr. Feldmann)
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