Universität Wien

120006 VO Approaching Literatures in English (2022S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

This course will take place in person.
The lecturer for this course is employed on a fixed-term contract and is not a member of the faculty.

  • Tuesday 08.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 15.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 22.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 29.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 05.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 26.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 03.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 10.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 17.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 24.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 31.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 14.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Tuesday 21.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This in-person lecture course will
- provide an introduction to basic questions of literary studies, such as text analysis, narratology, figures of speech, historicization, interpretation and literary theory;
- make students familiar with the purpose, terminology, and praxis of literary criticism,
- give a survey of the major literary genres and the special problems relating to them.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written final test (90 minutes, in person)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

This in-person course aims at providing students with a critical toolkit enabling them to understand - and apply - the basic concepts of literary criticism and to approach and analyse literary texts autonomously.

Examination topics

All content covered in the lecture series will be relevant for the exam. In particular, students are required to be able to reproduce the definitions of key literary movments/critical terms, to write a short reflective essay on a key debate/theme from our discussions, and to analyse a short story and a poem from our syllabus using key literary critical terms.

Reading list

Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour"
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants"
Jean Rhys, “I Used to Live Here Once”
Katherine Mansfield, “Bliss”
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily"
James joyce, "The Dead"
Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”
Edmund Waller, “Song”
Emily Dickinson, “The Last Night that She Lived”
Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
W.H. Auden, “As I Walked Out One Evening”
William Blake, “The Lamb”
William Blake, “The Tyger”
William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”
H.D. "Oread"
Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
Bram Stoker, "Dracula" (excerpts on Moodle)
Mario Klarer, "An Introduction to Literary Studies"
Terry Eagleton, "What is Literature?"
Harold Bloom, "An Elegy for the Canon"
Mike Fleming, "The Literary Canon: implications for the teaching of language as subject"
Lillian S. Robinson, "Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon"
Supportive material (PPTs, texts, videos and video links) will be provided on the Moodle elearning platform.

Association in the course directory

Studium: EC 124;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0261

Last modified: Fr 16.09.2022 14:28