239771 Spoiling Rom-Com, or How to (De-)Construct Romance in Fiction and Film (S) (SoSe 2013)

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Romance is a literary genre that recounts, in a manner only loosely related to realism, legendary feats of heroism undertaken by the feudal aristocracy, including the general themes of identity-formation, romantic love and salvation (a.k.a . ‘living happily ever after’). Romance was born and developed in the later 12th century in France and spread to other parts of Europe including Angevin England and … 600 years later … popular bookshops and lending libraries and … 800 years later … Hollywood and the world’s cinemas and tv screens. How much (or little) have the fantasies, the gender stereotypes, the power relations channelled in romance changed since it was first invented? How do the masterplots and archetypes of myth and folk tale survive in films like Love, Actually or teenie blockbusters like Twilight? And how do we deal with the cognitive dissonance between the ‘medieval’ (or worse, Victorian) ideologies peddled in popular romance and our own enlightened(?), emancipated(?) concepts of identity and gender?

Bibliography

Love, Actually. Dir. Richard Curtis. 2003
Heyer, Georgette. The Talisman Ring. 1936
Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. Vol. 1. 2007
Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night (1598) and Cymbeline (1611)
These texts you should have read before the semester starts.

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weekly Mi 10-12 U2-113 08.04.-19.07.2013
not on: 5/1/13
one-time Mi 10-12 H2 10.04.2013

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23-ANG-AngPM2 Profile Module 2: British Studies Profilmodul 2: British Studies 2.3 British Literature and Media Study requirement
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) Kern- und Nebenfach BaAngPM4   2/3  
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM4   2/3  
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM4   2/3  
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