When the would-be novelist David Lassman handed in the thinly disguised beginnings of Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion to a dozen well-established British agents and publishing houses, he received a dozen rejection slips. Bloomsbury, the publisher who ten years previously had taken on Harry Potter, wrote back that the manuscripts had been read “with interest” but were not “suited to our list”. Only one editor remarked on the similarity between these manuscripts and those hallmarks of English literary art, Jane Austen’s novels.
The irony of this anecdote is evident. Austen’s novels have been translated, filmed and adapted (or “tradapted”) into all sorts of languages, media and cultures; there are time-travel, Hollywood & Bollywood, crime and zombie re-imaginings, apart from the inevitable eroticisation of the novels in fan fiction. She is the second most “tradapted” British writer after Shakespeare. “Tradaptation”, says Michel Garneau, describes “the ways in which canonical texts are invested with new meanings in an attempt to force the target culture to confront itself through exposure to the rewritten source text”. It is some of these rewritings and confrontations that we aim to explore in this seminar.
You should at least be familiar with Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion as we will focus on tradaptations of these novels.
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23-ANG-AngVM1 Vertiefungsmodul 1: Britain | 1.2 British Literature: Genre, Periods, Authors | Study requirement
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1.3 British Cultural Studies: Theories, Periods, Media | Study requirement
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23-ANG-AngVM4 Vertiefungsmodul 4: Anglophone Studies | Anglophone Literatures and Cultures | Study requirement
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23-LIT-LitP2 Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft | Intertextualität und Übersetzung | Study requirement
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23-LIT-LitP8 Englischsprachige Literaturen | Englischsprachige Literaturen in exemplarischen Lektüren 1 | Study requirement
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Englischsprachige Literaturen in exemplarischen Lektüren 2 | Study requirement
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Englischsprachige Literaturen: Traditionen, Gattungen, Motive | Study requirement
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Seminar mit Lektüreschwerpunkt | Study requirement
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- | Graded examination | Student information | |
23-LIT-M-LitAM3 Aufbau-Modul II: Fachphilologische Vertiefung Anglistik | Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Study requirement
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Lehrveranstaltung 3 | Graded examination
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23-LIT-M-LitINT Intensivierung | Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Study requirement
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Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 3 | Study requirement
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The binding module descriptions contain further information, including specifications on the "types of assignments" students need to complete. In cases where a module description mentions more than one kind of assignment, the respective member of the teaching staff will decide which task(s) they assign the students.
Degree programme/academic programme | Validity | Variant | Subdivision | Status | Semester | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM3; BaAngPM4 | |||||
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Four-hour seminar sessions will take place on 13 Oct. (despite the HowToEnglish week!), 20 and 27 Oct., 10 Nov., 1 and 15 Dec., 12 and 26 Jan. - Please note that attendance in the introductory meeting on 13 October is obligatory, as is attendance on 20 and 27 November, when we will have two professional translators coming to conduct workshops for us.