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120058 AR Literature (Interactive Course) - British/Irish/New English Literatures: Ars Punica (2008W)

Wordplay in English Literature

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Diese LVA gilt für das Masterstudium Anglophone Literatures and Cultures nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 10.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 17.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 24.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 31.10. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 07.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 14.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 21.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 28.11. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 05.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 12.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 19.12. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 09.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 16.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 23.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Freitag 30.01. 09:00 - 11:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In 1719, Thomas Sheridan, a friend of Jonathan Swift's, published Ars punica sive flos linguarum. The art of punning: or the flower of languages, in seventy-nine rules for the farther improvement of conversation, and help of memory, thus establishing wordplay as an important component of the rhetorical 'toolkit'. The pun (or paronomasia--to give it its proper technical designation) is the most obvious type of wordplay (Shakespeare, incidentally, is said to have included some 3000 puns in his oeuvre). Other forms of wordplay include aphorisms, graffiti, limericks, nonsense poetry. Among the more elementary types we have palindromes, tongue-twisters, clerihews, malapropisms, spoonerisms, and (Cockney) rhyming slang.
Apart form the obvious sources of the oral tradition (i.e., the ubiquitous "anon."), examples will be taken from English and Irish Literature; authors featured will include William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Maria Edgeworth, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Dylan Thomas.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Requirements for credit: regular attendance, active participation in class, PowerPoint presentation, written final test.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

To study wordplay/word games is essentially an exercise in close reading. We will explore basic premises of verbal humour, linguistic mannerisms, and literary styles by scrutinising textual micro-structures and rhetorical strategies in a wide variety of texts from the comic tradition.

Prüfungsstoff

inter-active (oral presentations, class-room discussion, short introductory lectures).

Literatur

A customised anthology will be available from 1 September 2008. Additional material will be provided on an e-learning platform. Therefore, students are asked to familiarise themselves in advance with the Blackboard Vista platform; for introduction and self-guided tour, please see
https://www.univie.ac.at/ZID/elearning-infos-studierende/
Recommended reading: David Crystal, Language Play (London: Penguin, 1986).

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

325, 326, 328, 336, 338, 323, 722, 3031, 3032

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22