123046 PS PS Literary Studies (2025S)
Gender benders and box trees: Shakespeare's Comedies on stage and in film
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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- Anmeldung von Mo 10.02.2025 00:00 bis Mo 24.02.2025 12:00
- Abmeldung bis Mo 31.03.2025 23:59
Details
max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- N Dienstag 08.07. 10:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
- Mittwoch 09.07. 10:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
- Donnerstag 10.07. 10:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
- Freitag 11.07. 10:00 - 16:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Regular attendance; regular preparation of assigned reading material; active participation in class; active in specialist team for one lesson per term; 3 plot-quizzes; 3 assigments; final paper.The teacher reserves the right to conduct a personal interview with any student whose written work has a doubtful status, in relation to plagiarism, ghost-writing or illegitimate AI-use.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Attendance:
As is standard practice, you may miss no more than two lessons if you wish to complete the course. If you produce a viable doctor's note, you may miss a third lesson but will have to compensated for it at the teacher's discretion. Since this is a block seminar with four lessons per diem, however, this means if you are sick for a whole day, you will fail this class.Quizzes:
There will be a text knowledge quiz for each of the three plays that is due - at the latest - before the lesson when we first discuss it. You may, of course, send it in earlier, whenever you have had time to read the plays. The quizzes will be on Moodle by the beginning of spring break, so you will have ample time to read the plays and collect the points by filling in each quiz at home. Please send each completed quiz as a pdf-file or a doc-file attachment via email to sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at. NB: Any quiz sent in after the relevant class has started, will remain unmarked, which means you won't be able to collect points on it.Active Participation: 10%
Specialist task: 15%
Quiz 1: 5%
Quiz 2: 5%
Quiz 3: 5%
Assignment 1 (write an introduction for your term paper): 15%
Assignment 2 (write a body-§ for your term paper): 10%
Assignment 3 (write a thesis statement for your term paper): 5%
Term paper (3,500 words): 30%Deadlines:
You need to pass all individual requirements to complete the course.A1 (1st draft of an intro) is to be sent as .pdf (by midnight on 20th July) to: sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at
A2 (1 body §) is to be sent as 1 ppt slide (by midnight on 27th July) to: sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at
A3 (thesis statement: 1 or 2 sentences) is to be sent as 1 ppt slide WITH your name on it (by midnight on 30th July): to: sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.atThere will be 3 opportunities to hand in your term papers:
1st batch: by midnight of 4th Sep
2nd batch: by midnight of 10th Sep
3rd batch: by midnight of 20th SepYou must hand in an anti-plagiarism statement with your term paper (without it, your paper will not be accepted) and upload the paper onto Moodle, so that the University's anti-plagiarism software can run over it. Only after your paper has been cleared by it, can marking commence.You are allowed to use AI-support (Chat GPT; Research Rabbit etc.) only in the research phase of your paper, not during the writing phase. If to choose to make use of such tools, you must disclose how and for what exactly you used them, as part of your anti-plagiarism statement. If you opt against using any AI-tool, please declare this as well in your anti-plagiarism statement, so there cannot be any misunderstandings.Points must be collected in all of these areas to pass. The benchmark for passing this course is at 60%.Marks in %:
1 (very good): 90-100%
2 (good): 81-89%
3 (satisfactory): 71-80%
4 (pass): 60-70%
5 (fail): 0-59%The term papers will be marked according to the following categories: form; content; methodology; quality of thesis; language; style.
As is standard practice, you may miss no more than two lessons if you wish to complete the course. If you produce a viable doctor's note, you may miss a third lesson but will have to compensated for it at the teacher's discretion. Since this is a block seminar with four lessons per diem, however, this means if you are sick for a whole day, you will fail this class.Quizzes:
There will be a text knowledge quiz for each of the three plays that is due - at the latest - before the lesson when we first discuss it. You may, of course, send it in earlier, whenever you have had time to read the plays. The quizzes will be on Moodle by the beginning of spring break, so you will have ample time to read the plays and collect the points by filling in each quiz at home. Please send each completed quiz as a pdf-file or a doc-file attachment via email to sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at. NB: Any quiz sent in after the relevant class has started, will remain unmarked, which means you won't be able to collect points on it.Active Participation: 10%
Specialist task: 15%
Quiz 1: 5%
Quiz 2: 5%
Quiz 3: 5%
Assignment 1 (write an introduction for your term paper): 15%
Assignment 2 (write a body-§ for your term paper): 10%
Assignment 3 (write a thesis statement for your term paper): 5%
Term paper (3,500 words): 30%Deadlines:
You need to pass all individual requirements to complete the course.A1 (1st draft of an intro) is to be sent as .pdf (by midnight on 20th July) to: sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at
A2 (1 body §) is to be sent as 1 ppt slide (by midnight on 27th July) to: sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at
A3 (thesis statement: 1 or 2 sentences) is to be sent as 1 ppt slide WITH your name on it (by midnight on 30th July): to: sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.atThere will be 3 opportunities to hand in your term papers:
1st batch: by midnight of 4th Sep
2nd batch: by midnight of 10th Sep
3rd batch: by midnight of 20th SepYou must hand in an anti-plagiarism statement with your term paper (without it, your paper will not be accepted) and upload the paper onto Moodle, so that the University's anti-plagiarism software can run over it. Only after your paper has been cleared by it, can marking commence.You are allowed to use AI-support (Chat GPT; Research Rabbit etc.) only in the research phase of your paper, not during the writing phase. If to choose to make use of such tools, you must disclose how and for what exactly you used them, as part of your anti-plagiarism statement. If you opt against using any AI-tool, please declare this as well in your anti-plagiarism statement, so there cannot be any misunderstandings.Points must be collected in all of these areas to pass. The benchmark for passing this course is at 60%.Marks in %:
1 (very good): 90-100%
2 (good): 81-89%
3 (satisfactory): 71-80%
4 (pass): 60-70%
5 (fail): 0-59%The term papers will be marked according to the following categories: form; content; methodology; quality of thesis; language; style.
Prüfungsstoff
There will be no written exam.
Literatur
Books to buy:
The following texts have been ordered for you at Facultas (shop on Campus)
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Arden Edition) [ISBN: 978-1903436998]
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Arden Edition) [ISBN: 978-1472520296]
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Arden Edition) [ISBN: 978-1408133491]Films to watch:
- Michael Hoffmann, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) [available for rent on Amazon Prime; you can also borrow a DVD from me, if you let me know in good time]
- Joss Whedon, Much Ado About Nothing (2012) [available for rent on Amazon Prime; you can also borrow a DVD from me, if you let me know in good time]Theatre productions to watch:
- Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night (Globe on Screen, 2013, available through Drama Online; find through our library)
- Emma Rice, Twelfth Night (Globe on Screen, 2017, available through Drama Online)Texts on Moodle:
I will upload scholarly articles on the plays we'll discuss and their cultural/political/historical/ social contexts (by Call, Howard, Loomba, Mayo, Owen, Penuel, Suzuki, Thomas, Watson), which should provide us with a representative array of Shakespeare studies’ approaches, on Moodle around the time of Spring break.Preparatory background reading:
If you read German, whenever dealing with Shakespeare, this should be your first port of call, if you need to get a good general idea: Ina Schabert (ed.), Shakespeare Handbuch, Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 2000. Please familiarise yourselves with the respective entries on the three plays we are going to discuss. They will be available as pdf files on Moodle. A good second source of basic information is the introduction to the individual play in question, which is provided by every Arden edition. These intros are generally lengthy affairs, but their internal structure makes it easy to select which parts might be more relevant for the purpose at hand than others.
The following texts have been ordered for you at Facultas (shop on Campus)
- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (Arden Edition) [ISBN: 978-1903436998]
- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Arden Edition) [ISBN: 978-1472520296]
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Arden Edition) [ISBN: 978-1408133491]Films to watch:
- Michael Hoffmann, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999) [available for rent on Amazon Prime; you can also borrow a DVD from me, if you let me know in good time]
- Joss Whedon, Much Ado About Nothing (2012) [available for rent on Amazon Prime; you can also borrow a DVD from me, if you let me know in good time]Theatre productions to watch:
- Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night (Globe on Screen, 2013, available through Drama Online; find through our library)
- Emma Rice, Twelfth Night (Globe on Screen, 2017, available through Drama Online)Texts on Moodle:
I will upload scholarly articles on the plays we'll discuss and their cultural/political/historical/ social contexts (by Call, Howard, Loomba, Mayo, Owen, Penuel, Suzuki, Thomas, Watson), which should provide us with a representative array of Shakespeare studies’ approaches, on Moodle around the time of Spring break.Preparatory background reading:
If you read German, whenever dealing with Shakespeare, this should be your first port of call, if you need to get a good general idea: Ina Schabert (ed.), Shakespeare Handbuch, Stuttgart: Alfred Kroner Verlag, 2000. Please familiarise yourselves with the respective entries on the three plays we are going to discuss. They will be available as pdf files on Moodle. A good second source of basic information is the introduction to the individual play in question, which is provided by every Arden edition. These intros are generally lengthy affairs, but their internal structure makes it easy to select which parts might be more relevant for the purpose at hand than others.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Studium: BA 612; BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-3041
Code/Modul: BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-3041
Letzte Änderung: Fr 31.01.2025 08:05
This course will take place on site and en bloc (8th-11th July; 10 am-4 pm). This means you have to make sure that you have read and watched all the material - the three Shakespeare plays, the films, the stage productions, as well as the scholarly articles that provide insight into various approaches used by Shakespeare scholars - before the course starts in July.NB
There will be a preliminary prep-meeting for this course on zoom. Please make a note of the day/time and keep that slot free: 11th April 4-5 pm. You have to be registered for the course to be invited to this meeting, at which we are going to distribute the specialist tasks. This means: ideally, you should have already decided before the meeting, for which slot you would like to sign up. Please have a back-up slot up your sleeve, in case you do not get your first choice. The course programme and materials will be online at the beginning of term. Please use them to reach an informed decision.The three comedies we are going to discuss in this course are part of Shakespeare's most popular work. You are going to learn something about the way the early modern period's theatre and its conventions and practices, about the genre to which A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595/96), Much Ado about Nothing (1598/99) and Twelfth Night (1601/02) belong, and about its gender/ed politics - both from the point of view of Shakespeare's contemporaries and from 20th/21st century scholars' perspectives. We will also discuss two relatively recent Globe-productions of one play (2013 and 2017) and delve into the history of adaptation by discussing a film version of each of the other comedies (from the late 1990's and 2012).Given that a high percentage of your grade in a PS is made up of writing exercises, we will dedicate a lot of time to developing your writing skills, clarifying how to go about writing an academic paper in literary studies, focusing on its preparation, organization, research techniques, genre requirements, methods, literary theories and concepts etc. You will be expected to hand in three assignments. Each of these is a building block for the term paper. Since this is a block seminar, though, most of the writing will take place after the course has already finished. In other words: the four days we will spend together will be a period of intense input, and then you will have time over the summer to work your way through your writing assignments. With the information that the feedback to your assignments imparts and the input from the academic writing sections under your belt, you should be well- equipped to find a topic, determine an object of analysis, formulate a research question, pick an approach and write your term papers.Specialist model:
There will be no student presentations in this class. Instead, each student will act as a specialist for part of one lesson, either alone or as a member of a team, depending on the number of participants. How exactly this works in terms of timing, what will be expected of you, and what a 'prep mail' is, I shall explain in detail in a zoom meeting that will take place before spring break. Once you have registered for the course and I have the complete participants' lists, I will contact those registered via email and send you the link. At the end of this zoom meeting, I'll ask you to sign up for one slot. So, as you read and watch your way through the plays/productions/films, please already think about which of these you would like to work on as a specialist.This proseminar has two goals: first, to acquaint you with three of William Shakespeare's happy comedies and some of its adaptations; second, to teach you the steps involved in putting together a proper term paper.