230484 The Bear Came Over the Mountain - Literary Representations of Dementia (S) (WiSe 2018/2019)

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When biographic memory fails, the sense of self dwindles and self-representation becomes a challenge, narrative reaches its limit. A mind fogged by dementia has a rapidly shrinking ability to articulate itself, its being, paired with diminished vocabulary.
Literary representations of dementia then attempt what strikes as almost impossible: to put into words a mental state that loses its words, its meaning, its coherence, that cannot narrate itself anymore or only in fragments.
In this class we will set up an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, combining psychology, medicine, and narratology to investigate a range of North American literary texts and their creative strategies of representing dementia.

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weekly Fr 16-18 C5-141 12.10.2018-01.02.2019
not on: 12/28/18 / 1/4/19

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23-ANG-M-HM4 Hauptmodul 4: Media and the Processes of Culture HM 4.1 Cultural Communication Study requirement
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23-IAS-M-IAS4 North American Literature and the Processes of Culture Cultural and Literary Contact in the U.S.A. I Study requirement
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Cultural and Literary Contact in the U.S.A. II Study requirement
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23-IAS-M-IAS6 Advanced Studies of Literatures and Cultures of the Americas / Estudios avanzados de literaturas y culturas de las Américas NorthAmerican Literatures in Context Study requirement
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