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LITERARY PROSEMINAR
WS 2007/8 - Mondays 16-18
"SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH"
Represenations of Juvenilia in Literature and Film
ANGLISTIK STYLE SHEET:
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/ang_new/pdf_downloads/style_sheet_literature.pdf
LECTURE NOTES
Notes on the Analysis of Poetry
Notes on Narrative Theory and the Analysis of Prose
!! NEW !!
Links for Drama-Analysis [here]
(= this elaborate discussion includes many of the aspects discussed today)
and Freytag's Pyramid [here]
October 15:
William Wordsworth "Tintern Abbey"
Reading Assignment & Questions & Poem
October 29
J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye
Questions discussed by presenters and in plenum
November 5
Questions for presenters on Catcher in the Rye
(Faulhuber, Babicka)
November 12
Questions for presenters on Wuthering Heights
(Spiegel, Pöschl)
NEW
December 3
Questions for presenters on Sweet Bird of Youth II
(Zoidl, Zlodej)
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
“Juvenilia” is often taken as a synonym for “immaturity” or used as a term to describe “an artistic work produced in author's youth”. In this course, we will explore the far more complex role “juvenilia” plays as a major theme in literary representation: William Wordsworth's “Tintern Abbey” (1798) Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1848); Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1949); J.D. Salinger's. The Catcher in the Rye . (1951); Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth (1959); Sylvia Plath's “Daddy” (1962); and Gulliermo del Toro's film Pan's Labyrinth (2006).
Considering these texts from different genres and eras, we will investigate how the representation of juvenilia is defined by narrative perspective structure (e.g. retrospection and immediacy) and how point of view shapes the approach of the protagonists towards coming-of-age, social (dis-)integration in the adult-world, or idealisations of youth. We will likewise concentrate on the influence of the socio-historical and cultural contexts on the representation of juvenilia in literary history.
Tools for literary analysis and techniques how to write a scholarly essay will also be acquired in class.
There will by a “Reader” including Wordsworth, Plath, and William's Sweet Bird of Youth.