WiSe 20/21: S-Culture-Gender-Media: Time and Temporality
Peter Löffelbein
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Time and its passage are recurring themes in literary and cultural studies. In recent years, scholars have maintained that, rather than being a natural given, time has been shaped by technological, economic and political forces, being inseparable from human configurations and perceptions. Recent literary scholarship and cultural studies have therefore redirected the focus toward temporalities, that is, the multiple ways of experiencing, conceptualising, and representing time.
This course explores the relationship of time and temporality within a diverse range of topics in current scholarship, including questions of historiography, gender, postmodernism, postcolonialism and ecocriticism.
The course will take place online, as befitting in both synchronous (Webex) and asynchronous forms (blog/forum posts, essays).
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Regular appointments