DISCLAIMER: "Violence solves nothing."
The aim of this course 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 focus is the theme of 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); Shadow of a Gunman (1923) by the Irish playwright Sean O’Casey; and the short story “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, 9 August 1986” by the English writer Hilary Mantel.
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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23-ANG-AngBM2 Basismodul 2: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies | 2.3 Basisseminar: Genres, Authors, Periods | Study requirement
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23-ANG-Basis2 Basismodul 2: Introduction to Literary Studies | Basis2.3 Basisseminar: Analysing and Interpreting Literary Texts | Student information | |
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You should already have completed the lecture course Basis1.1 "Introduction to Literary Analysis".
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