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230389 Fads and Fantasies: Romance Literature (S) (SoSe 2022)
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Outlander, Bridgerton, Fifty Shades of Grey, Twilight, Virgin River - the list of bestselling romance fictions seems endless these days. Both the original novels and the adaptations for the screen attract huge numbers of audiences and generate die-hard fans. There is much money to be made by selling fantasies of true love to romantic-deprived people and the romance literary market is thriving. The genre is therefore often considered rather cheap and low-brow, an easy read. While that is certainly true for a sizeable number of romance literature, it would be shortsighted to define the whole genre as simplistic and run-of-the-mill. Romance literature has a long history that has produced several well-known literary tropes, and it has given us novels that today are counted as literary masterpieces.
In this class, we will seek to expand our knowledge of narrative as a literary genre and pay attention to the history of romance literature, its features and structures. With these foundations, we will then study a selection of contemporary US-American hit romances and critically discuss those.
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| Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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| weekly | Di | 10-12 | U2-223 | 04.04.-15.07.2022 |
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| Module | Course | Requirements | |
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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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