Romance is a literary genre that recounts, in a manner only loosely related to realism, legendary feats of heroism undertaken by the feudal aristocracy, including the general themes of identity-formation, romantic love and salvation (a.k.a . ‘living happily ever after’). Romance was born and developed in the later 12th century in France and spread to other parts of Europe including Angevin England and … 600 years later … popular bookshops and lending libraries and … 800 years later … Hollywood and the world’s cinemas and tv screens. How much (or little) have the fantasies, the gender stereotypes, the power relations channelled in romance changed since it was first invented? How do the masterplots and archetypes of myth and folk tale survive in films like Love, Actually or teenie blockbusters like Twilight? And how do we deal with the cognitive dissonance between the ‘medieval’ (or worse, Victorian) ideologies peddled in popular romance and our own enlightened(?), emancipated(?) concepts of identity and gender?
Love, Actually. Dir. Richard Curtis. 2003
Heyer, Georgette. The Talisman Ring. 1936
Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. Vol. 1. 2007
Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night (1598) and Cymbeline (1611)
These texts you should have read before the semester starts.
Rhythmus | Tag | Uhrzeit | Format / Ort | Zeitraum | |
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wöchentlich | Mi | 10-12 | U2-113 | 08.04.-19.07.2013
nicht am: 01.05.13 |
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einmalig | Mi | 10-12 | H2 | 10.04.2013 |
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Modul | Veranstaltung | Leistungen | |
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23-ANG-AngPM2 Profilmodul 2: British Studies | 2.3 British Literature and Media | Studienleistung
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Studieninformation |
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Studiengang/-angebot | Gültigkeit | Variante | Untergliederung | Status | Sem. | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM4 | 2/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM4 | 2/3 | ||||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM4 | 2/3 | ||||
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New BA (2011)
Deadlines for module exams in BM 2 and BM 3
Students in the new BA (2011) should note that before they can attempt the module exams in the Profilphase or the Vertiefungsphase, they must have completed and passed the module exams in BM 2 and BM 3. This means that you cannot write your profile-module paper in PM 2 or PM 3, or attempt the oral exam in PM 4, before you have passed the module paper in BM 2 and the module exam in BM 3. (N. B. This regulation does not affect the Proficiency Test, the module exam in BM 1: you can take this whenever you feel ready for it.)
In order to help you assess and improve your academic writing skills, you will be asked to show your BM 2 module paper to the person who will read your profile-module paper. (A similar regulation obtains for the Bachelor thesis, see its module description.)