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120082 PS Introductory Seminar (literature) (2008S)

The Canon Revisited: New Theories Applied to Classics

3.50 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work

Anrechenbar als Wahlfach 701 (UniStG Studienplan). ECTS UF Englisch: 3.00

Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 13.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 20.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 27.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 03.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 10.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 17.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 24.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 08.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 15.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 29.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 05.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 12.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 19.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 26.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this introductory seminar works from the canon - Brontë's Victorian classic Jane Eyre, Shakespeare's King Lear and well-known poems from the Renaissance to Modernism - will be looked at from various critical perspectives. Close reading of the individual texts will be a starting point for further analysis: literary theories and movements such as Modernism, feminist, Marxist or psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, postcolonial or ecocriticism will be presented and applied to novel, drama and/or poetry.
Requirements: class participation, short presentations, term paper, final written test.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students become familiar with traditional close reading and with literary theories and their application to literary texts. They are acquainted with basic skills and techniques required for writing an academic paper.

Examination topics

small-group and all-class discussion of literary and theoretical texts, short presentations of individual literary theories

Reading list

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; William Shakespeare, King Lear; Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Who so list to hounte"; Edmund Spenser, "Ye tradefull Merchants"; William Shakespeare, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"; Andrew Marvell, "To his Coy Mistress"; William Wordsworth, "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"; T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; H.D., "Oread".

Association in the course directory

304, 701; K225

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