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Ethical Problems in Anglo-American Fiction


DozentIn: Prof. Dr. Harald Husemann , Erika Grosse Beilage

Veranstaltungstyp: Seminar

Ort: 41/E08

Zeiten: Mi. 08:15 - 09:45 (wöchentlich) - Sitzung

Beschreibung: We will read and discuss fictional accounts of ethical problems like "Who has the right to determine whether a patient has the right to decide whether to live or die"? "Do teachers manipulate students for their own good"? "Are there limits to a person´s job/vocation"? "Should a psychiatrist cure a shell-shocked soldier so that he can be sent back to the front?
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Set books. Buy and read:
I. McEwan. The Children Act (2014)
N. Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter (1850).
A. Bennett. The History Boys (2004).
W. Russell. Educating Rita. (1985).
E. J. Gaines. A Lesson before Dying (1993)
Pat Barker. Regeneration. (1991)
G. Greene. The Power and the Glory (1940).
D. Hare. Pravda (1985)
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Additional texts (not discussed in the seminar):
I. McEwan. Saturday (2005)
B. Clark. Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1978)
S. Plath. The Bell Jar (1963) Film 1979
M. Drabble. The Millstone (1965)
D. Hare. Murmuring Judges (1991)
K. Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day (1989). Film
M. Spark. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). Film1969
L. Moyes. Me Before You (2012). Film 2016
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Das Meer in Mir (Film 2004)
F. v. Schirach. Terror, Theaterstück und eine Rede.( 2016)
F. v. Schirach. Terror. Ihr Urteil. ARD Spielfilm (2016)
B. Schlink. Der Vorleser (1995). Film <The Reader< 2008


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