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Root number
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505949 |
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Semester
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HS2025 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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English Languages and Literatures |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
Contemporary North American Graphic Narratives (MA Seminar Literature) |
| Description |
This seminar delves into one of the most playful, dynamic, and politically engaged forms of contemporary North American literature: the graphic narrative. Combining words and images in a variety of genres—including graphic novels, graphic journalism, and visual life writing—graphic narratives offer a unique, intermedial approach to storytelling. For much of its history, this form was overlooked by the literary establishment and dismissed as children’s literature. However, at the latest since Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, the critical and academic recognition of graphic narratives has grown significantly, acknowledging not only their wide public reach but also their profound intellectual, political, cultural, and aesthetic contributions. We will explore a wide range of graphic narratives that engage with various contemporary issues, first and foremost Spiegelman’s Maus (1991), Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan (2000), Satrapi’s Persepolis (2003), Redniss’s Radioactive (2010), Sacco’s Paying the Land (2020), and Beaton’s Ducks (2022). These examples demonstrate how invested contemporary North American graphic narratives are in matters of ecological and cultural sustainability, U.S. American domestic and foreign politics, structures of identity formation (gender, race, class, etc.), and the aesthetics of telling real and fictional stories in visually compelling and thought-provoking ways.
Required Reading: Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (1991); Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (2000); Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, vol. 1 (2003); Lauren Redniss’s Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout (2010); Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land (2020); Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022). The theoretical texts for the first two sessions will be uploaded to Ilias by 1 September. All of these texts must be read before the first session; your knowledge of them may be subject to examination. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Gabriele Rippl, Institute of English Languages and Literatures ✉
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Dr.
Sofie Behluli, Institute of English Languages and Literatures, American Studies ✉
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ECTS
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4 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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passed/failed |
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| Dates |
Wednesday 16:15-18:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F -123, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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| Students please consult the detailed view for complete information on dates, rooms and planned podcasts. |
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