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127012 KO Critical Readings in Literature (2020S)

Writing the Metropolis: Literary Representations of London

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

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Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 05.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 19.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 26.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 02.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 23.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 30.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 07.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 14.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 28.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 04.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Donnerstag 18.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Digital
  • Donnerstag 25.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

PLEASE NOTE:
I am currently adapting this course to distance learning.
All participants are invited to check Moodle regularly for further information.

‘When a man is tired of London he is tired of life’, Dr Johnson wrote in 1777. Thus, this Critical Readings course will look at London’s representation in (mostly) literary texts and explore the ways in which the city has inspired the literary imagination. The dimensions of the metropolis as reflected in a variety of genres from different periods of time together with the historical and cultural contexts in which they are embedded offer a diverse panorama of metropolitan life across the centuries. We will do a close reading of and apply a range of critical and theoretical approaches to the fictional texts and also discuss a few non-fictional ones.
Methods:
In-class discussions, reading assignments, oral presentations, group work, written assignments, eLearning

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

regular attendance and participation in in-class discussions; oral presentations; portfolio consisting of individual assignments to be specified

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

45 points portfolio
30 points oral presentation(s)
25 points active participation and short assignments

All course requirements need to be fulfilled for a positive grade. Students have to score at least 60 points to pass this course.

Grading scale:
1: 100-91
2: 90-81
3: 80-71
4: 70-60
5: 59-0

Prüfungsstoff

Everything covered in class, including all the mandatory texts, presentations, in-class discussions and the portfolio. There will be no written exam.

Literatur

Texts to be discussed:
Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway; The London Scene (extracts)
Zadie Smith: NW (short extract)
Samuel Pepys: Diary (extracts)
Charles Dickens: Sketches by Boz (extracts)
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Man of the Crowd”
poems by Dryden, Blake, Wordsworth and others
non-fictional texts
The short story, the poems, the extracts and the non-fictional texts as well as background and theoretical reading will be provided on Moodle.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: BA 612; BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BA08.3; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3000

Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:16