230560 Representations of Death and Dying (Resurrection) (BS) (WiSe 2020/2021)

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Resurrected by popular demand, this class will deal with a variety of visual and literary representations of death and processes of dying that may be disturbing to some viewers/readers.

We will mostly look at instances of fictional personified, heroic, aestheticized, and/or romanticized death in literary fiction, images, movies and video games and apply a variety of theoretical frameworks to these representations to investigate their social and cultural functions and effects. The focus will be predominantly on representations from Anglophone countries, but will also include other examples from Europe as points of comparison.

The topics that will be addressed in this class contain sensitive issues, however, this class will not be graphic in the sense that we will not analyse visual material that contains actual scenes of ‘real’ death, dying people and/or processes of dying.

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block Block 10-18 ONLINE   01.-05.03.2021

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23-ANG-M-HM2 Main Module 2: British Literature and the Processes of Culture Hauptmodul 2: British Literature and the Processes of Culture HM 2.1 British Literature in Context Study requirement
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23-ANG-M-HM3 Main Module 3: NorthAmerican Literatures and the Processes of Culture Hauptmodul 3: NorthAmerican Literatures and the Processes of Culture HM 3.1 NorthAmerican Literatures in Context Study requirement
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23-ANG-M-HM4 Main Module 4: Media and the Processes of Culture Hauptmodul 4: Media and the Processes of Culture HM 4.2 Mediating Cultures Study requirement
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30-MGS-5_ver1 Main Module 4: Body and Health Hauptmodul 4: Körper und Gesundheit Seminar 1 Study requirement
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Seminar 2 Study requirement
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block seminar (BS) / 2
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This lecture is taught in english
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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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