230151 Political Assassinations in Literature (S) (WiSe 2024/2025)

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It counts as BM2.3 Genres, Authors, Periods AND as Basis2.3 Analysing and Interpreting Literary Texts (British Lit only.)

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DISCLAIMER: "Violence solves nothing."

The aim of this course -- specially designed for our focus semester on "Democracy" -- is to give you scope to apply the analytical tools to analyse and interpret literary texts that you were given in the lecture “Introduction to Literary Analysis”. Our theme is political assassinations: a difficult, indeed, taboo topic that writers have explored in texts as varied as the Anglo-Saxon heroic poem Judith (written around 1000 AD, only a fragment survives), in which the Israelite woman Judith beheads the Assyran general Holofernes, who is threatening her people; selected scenes from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1598-99); and the short story “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, 6 August 1983” by the English writer Hilary Mantel.

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The texts will be provided.
I will refer you back to your textbooks from the intro lecture: Nünning and Nünning, and / or Michael Meyer. If you do not own a copy of one of these, please obtain it asap.

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Frequency Weekday Time Format / Place Period  
weekly Mo 14-16 U2-200 07.10.-15.12.2024 This class is part of the focus semester "Democracy".
weekly Mo 14-16 T2-220 16.12.2024-31.01.2025
not on: 12/23/24 / 12/30/24

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Module Course Requirements  
23-ANG-AngBM2 Basismodul 2: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies 2.3 Basisseminar: Genres, Authors, Periods Study requirement
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You should already have completed the lecture course Basis1.1 "Introduction to Literary Analysis".

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seminar (S) / 2
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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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