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135055 VO Social History of Literature (VO): History of Reading: Overview and Challenges (2022W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

Registrierungsfrist für Vorlesungen (VO) des WS 2022/23: Beginn 1.9.2022, Ende: 30.9.2023
Moodle

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Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 04.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 11.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 18.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 25.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 08.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 15.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 22.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 29.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 06.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 13.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 10.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 17.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Tuesday 24.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The history of reading touches upon many disciplines and problems. From the perspective of literary scholarship, we take a look at contexts and meanings of e.g. reading scenes in texts and images, documents about book ownership, marginalia, sources on the book market and other literary institutions. With a view to literary reception between written text and oral transmission, we are also concerned with questions of reading for oneself, being read to and listening. In addition, we consider gendered aspects of reading, differences from an international perspective and the creative interaction with literary text, e.g. in fanfiction and fandom.

Every week, we will consider a topic based on a practical example. Background information will be provided beforehand. In the classroom, we will focus on the discussion of theoretical and practical difficulties.

Goals:
- You are able to critically reflect on a major field of literary scholarship
- You are familiar with central research concepts of (the history of) reading
- You know about certain practical limits of empirical and source-based scholarship

Assessment and permitted materials

Schriftliche Prüfung am Semesterende, bei der sowohl Faktenwissen als auch Anwendungswissen abgefragt wird. (Nach aktuellem Stand, Juli 2022, wird es sich um eine Prüfung vor Ort handeln).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Schriftliche Prüfung
Benotung: 50-45: sehr gut // 44-40 gut // 39-34 befriedigend // 33-26 genügend // 25-0 n.g.

Examination topics

Folien und Inhalte der LV (schriftliche Zusammenfassungen und ergänzende Lektüren auf Moodle)

Reading list

u.a. Texte aus
Cavallo, Guglielmo; Roger Chartier (Hg.): Histoire de la lecture dans le monde occidental. Paris: Seuil 2001.
Hammond, Mary; Jonathan Rose (Hg.): The Edinburgh History of Reading. 4 Bde. Edinburgh University Press 2020
Martus, Steffen; Carlos Spoerhase (Hg.): Gelesene Literatur. Populäre Lektüre im Medienwandel. Göttingen: Text + Kritik 2018
Ong, Walter J.: Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word. 30th Anniv. Edition. London: Routledge 2002.
Rautenberg, Ursula; Ute Schneider (Hg.): Lesen. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Berlin: De Gruyter 2015.
Towheed, Shafquat; Rosalind Crone and Katie Halsey (Hg.): The History of Reading. A Reader. London: Routledge 2011

Association in the course directory

BA M5; EC

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