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Novels for discussion in class:<br />

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Classics Edition. (ISBN-10: 0141439513)<br />

Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics Edition. (ISBN-13: 978 014 144 114 6)<br />

Please be sure to buy the ‘classics’ editions and not the ‘popular classics’ editions.<br />

Helen Fielding. Bridget Jones’s Diary. Macmillan Edition (ISBN-10: 0330332775)<br />

maximum participants: 30<br />

The English Sonnet from the Renaissance to the Present (Proseminar) 4002043<br />

2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Mo 16-18 R 34 James Fanning<br />

Ever since the days of Dante and Petrarch the history of European poetry has been<br />

unthinkable without the sonnet. After a brief consideration of its origins, we shall read and<br />

discuss a selection of works in this ubiquitous form, from its introduction into England by<br />

Wyatt and Surrey in the time of Henry VIII to the present. (Sonnets are less common now, but<br />

they are still being written; and of course the majority are on love, but not all ...)<br />

Primary texts will be provided in a reader available from Digital Print Copy<br />

(Loefflerstr./Kuhstr.) by the middle of March.<br />

Recommended introductory reading:<br />

Spiller, Michael G. The Development of the Sonnet: an introduction. Abingdon: Routledge<br />

1992 (covers early Italian sonnets and English poets up to Milton)<br />

maximum participants: 30<br />

Hamlet on screen (Proseminar) 4002045<br />

2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Di 10-12 R 34 Conny Loder<br />

This seminar will look at various screen adaptations of the play Hamlet. This, being one of the<br />

most often produced Shakespeare plays on stage, inspires film directors worldwide. We will<br />

look at Hamlet adaptations by Lawrence Olivier, Franko Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh and<br />

Michael Almereyda. We will also discuss Herbert Fritsch’s ongoing project, Hamlet_X, and<br />

the internationally acclaimed Chinese adaptation, Feng Xiaogang’s The Banquet. How do<br />

those directors approach the character Hamlet? How are the corrupt political affairs of a rotten<br />

Denmark transported into twentieth and twenty-first century society? How are the motifs of<br />

revenge, madness and sexuality presented in these productions? These are only some of the<br />

questions the seminar aims to answer. The productions discussed will be shown in their<br />

entirety outside of class; dates to be confirmed in the first week of class.<br />

maximum participants: 25<br />

Between Fact, Fiction, and Factory: the Victorian Condition of England Novel (Seminar)<br />

4002046<br />

2 SWS ab 3. Sem. Di 12-14 R 34 Mascha Gemmeke Hansen<br />

Britain’s industrial age produced not only great technical innovations but also great books: the<br />

so-called social or industrial novels of the nineteenth century, castigating the factories and<br />

their inhuman working conditions, as well as the Condition-of-England novel, exploring and<br />

deploring the rising gap between rich and poor, owners and workers. This class will focus on<br />

some of the most famous ones: Charles Dickens’s Hard Times; Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary<br />

Barton; and Benjamin Disraeli’s Sybil or the Two Nations.<br />

Before you enrol for this seminar, please check the notice boards to see whether it will<br />

actually take place.<br />

maximum participants: 35<br />

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