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Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2019/20 , Aktuelles Semester: WiSe 2024/25
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Reading Between the Lines: Ambiguity in North American Literature    Sprache: Englisch    Belegpflicht
(Keine Nummer) Blockseminar     WiSe 2019/20     2 SWS     jedes Semester    
   Lehreinheit: Anglistik    
   Teilnehmer/-in  Maximal : 30  
 
   Zugeordnete Lehrperson:   Furlanetto
 
 
Zur Zeit keine Belegung möglich
   Termin: Freitag   10:00  -  18:00    EinzelT
Beginn : 17.01.2020    Ende : 17.01.2020
      Raum :   R12 R04 B93   R12R  
  Samstag   10:00  -  18:00    EinzelT
Beginn : 18.01.2020    Ende : 18.01.2020
      Raum :   R12 T04 E96   R12T  
  Freitag   10:00  -  18:00    EinzelT
Beginn : 24.01.2020    Ende : 24.01.2020
      Raum :   R12 R04 B11   R12R  
  Samstag   10:00  -  18:00    EinzelT
Beginn : 25.01.2020    Ende : 25.01.2020
      Raum :   R12 R04 B11   R12R  
 
 
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We are taught to read books for what they say, but what if we read them for what they do not say? Contradictions, gaps, questions asked and never answered, absences, and ‘left-unsaids’ are as central a part of a text’s poetics and politics as its plot. Why does a word seem to mean one thing and its opposite? Why does the text circle around one concept without ever openly addressing it? Why is the author contradicting her/himself? Why am I sure this text is about race, although nothing race-related is ever mentioned?

This seminar will engage textual ambiguities and interrogate their meaning within the logic of a text and its historical context. We will work with the hypothesis that textual ambiguities such as the ones listed above are more than banal blunders: they allow precious insights into cultural struggles with specific concepts. The lack of a discourse or a language to express uncomfortable ideas manifests itself in uncertain – or ambiguous – textualities. The seminar will start with early modern texts such as captivity narratives from the Americas and Africa (Mary Rowlandson and Maria Martin), continue on to the 19th century (Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Washington Cable, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson), touch upon the 20th century (Robert Frost), and end with ambiguating strategies in recent texts from the first decades of the 21st century. The ultimate goal of our seminar will be to theorize ambiguity as full-fledged a literary device.