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123043 PS PS Literary Studies (2024S)

Anglo-American Modernism

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

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Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Mo 12.02.2024 00:00 to Mo 19.02.2024 12:00
Deregistration possible until Su 31.03.2024 23:59

Details

max. 25 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Dieter Fuchs

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Wednesday 13.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 20.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 10.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 17.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 24.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 08.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 15.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 22.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 29.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 05.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 12.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 19.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Wednesday 26.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This proseminar focuses on High Modernist literature: i.e. on highly experimental texts which emerged in the inter-war period between 1918 & 1939. As many High Modernist authors such as T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald worked on both sides of the Atlantic, this course focuses on English and American Studies respectively. Other (non-transatlantic) High Modernists to be looked at include Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.
The rewriting of ancient mythology as an ordering device for an increasingly chaotic and war-struck present (known as ‘mythical method’) will be a central aspect to be looked at in this course. As Modernist art is notoriously experimental if not to say ‘difficult’, genuine interest in ‘writerly’ rather than ‘readerly’ texts is essential for participation.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular Attendance, Classroom Discussion 10%, Oral Presentation 20%, Written Assignment 20%, Term Paper 50%

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students have to fulfill all course requirements (each with at least 50%) and to score at least 60 points altogether to pass this course.10 Points (Maximum) Classroom Discussion, 20 Points (Maximum) Oral Presentation, 20 Points (Maximum) Written Assignment, 50 Points (Maximum) Term Paper

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

Examination topics

The texts and topics dealt with in class.

Reading list

Hemingway, "A Very Short Story", "Old Man at the Bridge", "Che ti dice La Patria?", Fiesta: The Sun also Rises
Fitzgerald, "The Ice Palace", The Great Gatsby
Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Eliot, "The Waste Land"
Joyce, "The Sisters", "The Dead"
Poetry: t.b.a.

Further Reading:
Childs, Peter. 2008. Modernism. In The New Critical Idiom. Series ed. John Drakakis 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
Levenson, Michael (ed.). 1999. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612; BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-3041

Last modified: Tu 05.03.2024 09:06