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120114 VO Literatures in English - Areas of Research (2008W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Für UF Englisch nur als Freies Wahlfach anrechenbar!
Diese LVA gilt für die Masterstudien Englisch nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Wednesday 15.10. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 22.10. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 29.10. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 05.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 12.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 19.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 26.11. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 03.12. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 10.12. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 17.12. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 07.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 14.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 21.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday 28.01. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Presentation of research profile of the department:

Huber: Celtic tiger Ireland (intermediality, drama and film)
Mengel: Contemporary South African novel; cultural transfer, drama and theatre
Rubik: Restoration fiction, travel fiction, colonial fiction, cognitive poetics, cultural transfer of American plays to Vienna stages
Weiss: 19th and 20th century drama and theatre; literature and music; narratology and the contemporary British novel
Zacharasiewicz: Transatlantic identities and retrospection in Canadian literature; transatlantic exchanges: between the American South and Europe

Assessment and permitted materials

Final written test.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Survey of research of scholars in Anglophone literatures; introduce students to fields of interest (represented in the MA curriculum of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures by alternative module groups); offer students a selection of potential topics for M.A. theses and "Diplomarbeiten".

Examination topics

lecture course, discussion

Reading list

10 theoretical texts (essays or chapters from books), 5 novels, 5 plays/films

Association in the course directory

321, 326, 336, 338, 328, 722, 3013, 2013

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