17398
Graduate Course
WiSe 12/13: Constructing Difference-HS:Literary and Cultural Histories: Literary Archaeologies
Andrew James Johnston
Comments
Archaeology both as a subject and as a metaphor has long been present in English literature. Even the Anglo-Saxons were fascinated by archaeological remains, by ruins, hidden treasures or buried artifacts. Again and again, we see archaeology being employed as a powerful allegory for historical distance or as a way of conceptualizing human beings' positions vis à vis the past. Indeed, in some respects one might even say that archaeology as a literary theme may often express notions of history for which a given culture possesses no adequate conceptual vocabulary.
This course seeks to assemble and interrogate a wide range of heterogeneous material concerned with archaeology in its many and fascinating literary guises. A reader with relevant material will be provided at the beginning of the semester.
This course will be taught in English and requires a knowledge of the language commensurate with C1 or, preferably, C2.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2012-10-16 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-10-23 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-10-30 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-11-06 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-11-13 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-11-20 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-11-27 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-12-04 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-12-11 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2012-12-18 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-01-08 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-01-15 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-01-22 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-01-29 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-02-05 16:00 - 18:00
Tue, 2013-02-12 16:00 - 18:00