VS-Literatures of Medieval Britain: Authorship
Wolfram Keller
Kommentar
The question as to what it means to be an author has been fueled in recent years by the omnipresence of texts generated by Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. In this seminar, we shall look into the history of authorship to see how writers in the (late) Middle Ages and the early modern period thought about authorship, about literary innovation and about individuality. At the beginning of the semester, we shall reconsider the history of – and theories about – authorship, especially the debates concerning the death (and resurrection) of the author. We will then consider recent work focused particularly on medieval and early modern authorship, before we shall turn to medieval and early modern literary texts – selected on the basis of the participants’ interests – to see how writers represent conceptualizations of literary authorship within their works.
Schließen12 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung