32210
Graduate Course
WiSe 19/20: This is awkward: of Misfits and Miscommunications
Sonja Schillings
Comments
In this seminar, we are interested in the ways in which literature portrays awkwardness, and associates certain aesthetic functions with it. Relatedly, we ask how and why literature itself may create awkward situations, and how this reflects on the social function of literature. Since awkwardness is a subjective and elusive “social feeling,” we will discuss very different aesthetic treatments of awkwardness in texts across the ages and genres. At the same time, we will consistently reflect on our own, possibly awkward, interpretive situation as contemporary critics. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2019-10-14 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-10-21 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-10-28 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-11-04 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-11-11 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-11-18 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-11-25 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-12-02 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-12-09 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2019-12-16 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-01-06 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-01-13 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-01-20 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-01-27 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-02-03 10:00 - 12:00
Mon, 2020-02-10 10:00 - 12:00