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135045 VO Reflexes of World Literature. Canon formation and early classics from Homer to Cervantes (2024W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
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We 22.01. 15:00-16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9

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Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 09.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 16.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 23.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 30.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 06.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 13.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 20.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 27.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 04.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 11.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 08.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Wednesday 15.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 32 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 9

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Aims, contents and method of the course

According to the Western model, world literature begins with Homer as the first poet known by name, whose famous works have come down to us. The lecture deals with the first great classics that constituted the canon of Western literature. It introduces the texts of the tradition founders, discourse founders and genre inventors Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Dante Alighieri and, depending on the time available, Miguel de Cervantes. After an introduction, which deals with the concepts of classics, canon and world literature on the basis of a pictorial exegesis, the following lectures, each comprising approximately two sessions, are dedicated to some of the most important classics and their translation and reception history in the German-speaking world. These historical and systematic outlines are combined with overviews of the author's work itself based on the current state of research, resulting in two roughly equal parts, thus providing an overview of how a system of the reception of antiquity is formed in the networking of individual prominent authorial images (in those epochs, the great canons are male), on which the paradigms of modern literature are gradually built during the Renaissance.

Assessment and permitted materials

The lecture will be concluded by a written examination, the exact mode of which will be announced at the beginning.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Each lecture is documented with ppt slides and will probably also be streamed and recorded. If you attend regularly, you will receive all the necessary information.

Examination topics

The exam is expected to be a multiple choice exam.

Reading list

Special bibliographies on the respective focal points will be made available in the individual lectures.

Association in the course directory

BA M4, EC

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