British Cultural History: Modernism
Vorlesung, 2 SWS
- Termin:
- Freitag, 11:10 - 12:40 Uhr
- Beginn:
- 08.04.2022
- Ort:
- MER/0003
Inhalt
The modernist period was characterised by rapid and major sociocultural changes, and much of what had been taken for granted was radically challenged. To name but a few contributing factors: the emergence of Marxism and the realisation of the power of ideology, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, Sigmund Freud’s theory of the unconscious, Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, and, not least of all, the emergence of the so-called New Woman and other challenges to established gender roles and norms surrounding sexuality. In consequence, as Kevin Dettmar asserts, “[i]f one were to characterize the philosophical tenor of modernism in one word – a risky, even foolhardy endeavour, to be sure – that word would have to be ‘uncertainty’”. Challenges to the prevailing norms and ways of making sense of the world were reflected in and facilitated by aesthetics, as famously represented by Ezra Pound’s call to ‘make it new’. This lecture is concerned not only with the rhetorical fireworks of the (predominantly male) modernist avant-garde but also and especially with more marginal, popular modernisms. It will address, among other things, modernism and affect, ethics, Marxism, sexology, orientalism, Hellenism and ‘the battle of the brows’.
- Lehrende/Vortragende:
- Prof. Dr. Cornelia Wächter
- Nachweise:
- Teilnahmebestätigung, 1 Cr.
- Ansprechpartner:
- Annett Knöspel, MA.
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- Einschreibeort:
- Über OPAL (ab 01.04.2022, 12 Uhr)