Universität Wien

120082 PS Introductory Seminar (literature) (2008S)

The Canon Revisited: New Theories Applied to Classics

3.50 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Anrechenbar als Wahlfach 701 (UniStG Studienplan). ECTS UF Englisch: 3.00

Details

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 13.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 20.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 27.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 03.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 10.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 17.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 24.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 08.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 15.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 29.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 05.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 12.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 19.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Donnerstag 26.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this introductory seminar works from the canon - Brontë's Victorian classic Jane Eyre, Shakespeare's King Lear and well-known poems from the Renaissance to Modernism - will be looked at from various critical perspectives. Close reading of the individual texts will be a starting point for further analysis: literary theories and movements such as Modernism, feminist, Marxist or psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, postcolonial or ecocriticism will be presented and applied to novel, drama and/or poetry.
Requirements: class participation, short presentations, term paper, final written test.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students become familiar with traditional close reading and with literary theories and their application to literary texts. They are acquainted with basic skills and techniques required for writing an academic paper.

Prüfungsstoff

small-group and all-class discussion of literary and theoretical texts, short presentations of individual literary theories

Literatur

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; William Shakespeare, King Lear; Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Who so list to hounte"; Edmund Spenser, "Ye tradefull Merchants"; William Shakespeare, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"; Andrew Marvell, "To his Coy Mistress"; William Wordsworth, "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"; T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; H.D., "Oread".

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

304, 701; K225

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33