32210
Seminar
SoSe 23: Realist Controversies
Karin Höpker
Comments
This course engages with controversies over realist aesthetics, the function of fiction and the future of the novel. While our reading draws on a historic scope of texts to tease out the aesthetic fault lines of the nineteenth century, we specifically focus on realist narrative after postmodernism and on more contemporary debates over mediality, digitalization, and the materiality and practice of reading in a reaction economy.
Our text corpus will consist of a combination of theoretical writing and fiction that tackles questions of narrative and verisimilitude, referentiality and affect, why we read and why we don’t. Short texts by Raymond Carver, David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, Alice Munro and Jennifer Egan will be made available. Please acquire: Don DeLillo Point Omega, Stewart O’Nan The Odds, and Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys.
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14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2023-04-19 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-04-26 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-05-03 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-05-10 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-05-17 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-05-24 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-05-31 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-06-07 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-06-14 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-06-21 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-06-28 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-07-05 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-07-12 08:00 - 10:00
Wed, 2023-07-19 08:00 - 10:00