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Advanced Seminar
WiSe 19/20: The Politics and Poetics of Intimacy in Post-postmodernist Fiction
Rabeb Ben Hania
Comments
Intimate matters have, since antiquity, been associated with the apolitical and private sphere while the public has been deemed to be unemotional and impersonal. In a postmillennial context of “emotional capitalism”, numerous postpostmodernist narratives started to question and revise this relation in depth and redefine the politics and poetics of intimacy (Eva Illouz, 2007). In contemporary fiction, intimacy is explored from a different angle and is no lo longer viewed uniquely from the realm of the private nor identified in exclusion with the inner personal life of the individual. It is rather asserted as a sociocultural force moving by and within “external” factors as much as internal feelings. In this course, we focus on the impact of the transformation of intimacy on the private-public dichotomy as well as on the self and community by studying texts published in post2000s (Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Zadie Smith , Rachel Cusk). Some of the question this course addresses are: how is intimacy depicted in postpostmodernist women literature and in what ways does the postmillennial context affect the intimate bonds? What are the implications of the transformation of the aesthetic of intimacy on the public-private dualism? In what ways is the revivalism of interest in intimate matters significant in contemporary literary context? close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2019-10-15 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2019-10-22 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2019-10-29 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2019-11-05 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2019-11-12 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2019-11-19 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2019-11-26 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2019-12-03 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2019-12-10 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2019-12-17 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2020-01-07 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2020-01-14 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2020-01-21 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2020-01-28 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2020-02-04 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2020-02-11 14:00 - 16:00