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123030 VO Literature Survey 2 (2024S)

From Restoration Comedy to Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora

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

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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 08.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 15.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 22.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 12.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 19.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 26.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 03.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 10.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 17.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 24.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 31.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 07.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 14.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Friday 21.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course starts March, 15th.

Providing readings in narrative fiction, drama, poetry, and non-literary prose from the Restoration to the 21st century, this lecture course examines the history of English literature as a series of complex aesthetic responses to cultural and political change.

Teaching methods: lecture & ppps & Q&A & online self tests with each session.

Recordings of the live sessions will be placed on moodle.

Assessment and permitted materials

Exam (on-site multiple choice test; 40 questions/60 minutes; at least one answer correct, at least one answer incorrect; for sample exam questions please see self-tests on moodle)

No study aids permitted during the exam

1st sitting: last session of term

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

1: 100 – 89,99%
2: 89,98 – 79,99%
3: 79,98 – 69,99%
4: 69,98 – 59,99%
5: 59,98% and below

Examination topics

The course's individual sessions (incl. ppt slides, recordings, readings & additional preparatory material) comprise the information you will be tested on.

For details please see the course’s moodle platform.

Reading list

Shorter texts will be announced and provided in session 1.
Long texts will be available from Facultas (campus, court 1) or provided online and include:
William Wycherley: The Country Wife (will be provided)
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Samuel Richardson: Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded
Mary Shelley-Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein
George Eliot: Adam Bede
Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound (will be provided)
Andrea Levy, Small Island

Recommended background reading:
Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context. Cambridge: CUP, 2017.
Hans-Ulrich Seeber et al., Englische Literaturgeschichte. Berlin: Metzler, 2012.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612, EC 125, EC 126; BEd 046
Code/Modul: BA08.2; Literaturgeschichte / Survey 2 - EC; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3030

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