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Victorian Adventure Stories


DozentIn: Prof. Dr. phil. Thomas Kullmann

Veranstaltungstyp: Seminar

Ort: 11/215: Mi. 08:15 - 09:45 (13x), 41/215: Mi. 08:15 - 09:45 (1x)

Zeiten: Mi. 08:15 - 09:45 (wöchentlich), Ort: 11/215, 41/215

Beschreibung: Many Victorian works of fiction are set in faraway, sometimes unreal, places, where young men from Britain meet up with savages, pirates, beautiful women, and dinosaurs. We are going to read five of these texts and explore their literary aims and techniques:
R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island (1858), Oxford World’s Classics ed.
R. L. Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883), Puffin Classics
Rider Haggard, She (1887), Oxford World’s Classic ed.
Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), Oxford World’s Classics ed.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World (1912), Wordsworth Classics.
Copies of the texts by Stevenson, Haggard and Doyle will be made available at Buchhandlung zur Heide; you can acquire second-hand copies of the Ballantyne and Hope texts online, or obtain copies at CopyShop Dialog, Süsterstr. 29 (from 6 July 2016). Please do not acquire any other editions, and, yes, you will need a printed book or copy, not a text projected onto a notebook screen!
Credits will be awarded on the basis of regular attendance, an oral report and a written term paper. Please register for the course in one of my office hours (StudIP registration is not sufficient); anyone registering in person until 20 October 2016 will get a place in the course, irrespective of StudIP.
And please make sure you have read the books by the beginning of the semester (there will be a short test on plots and characters).


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