Universität Wien

127011 KO Critical Readings in Literature (2023W)

Imagining the Nonhuman in British Narrative Fiction

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

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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Mittwoch 11.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 18.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 25.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 08.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 15.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 22.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 29.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 06.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 13.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 10.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 17.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 24.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Mittwoch 31.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this course we will undertake an exemplary survey of British narrative fiction that deals with questions of human-animal relations, animality vs. humanity, and the representation of nonhuman consciousness. Our syllabus is bookended by an obscure early modern prose satire and a contemporary experimental novel. In between those, we’ll be covering some canonical texts and some less well-known ones (see reading list).

Various narratological tools and concepts will enable us to make sense of our primary texts. Participants are encouraged to revise their notes from the literary theory lectures in preparation of this course (see also chapter 5 of Vera und Ansgar Nünning’s Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature). Based on formal analysis, we will be able to able to locate our texts within their cultural and historical context, focusing on questions of human-animal relations, how they have changed, and how they have stayed the same. In these interpretations we will draw on seminal texts from human-animal studies.

Students must own and use hard copies of primary texts, except for those made available in the course reader, which also contains essential secondary reading. The required editions of primary works and the course reader will be available at FACULTAS am Campus. Additional resources will be made available on Moodle.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

regular attendance / preparation of assigned reading / active participation in class / specialist session / portfolio (three literary analyses, one critical review)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab


Point distribution as follows:
20 % Active participation
20 % Specialist session
30 % Critical review (1500 words)
30 % Short literary analyses (3x 800 words)

Points must be collected in all categories. Students must attain 60% to pass this course.

Marking as follows:
90-100 % 1 (very good)
80 - 89 % 2 (good)
70 - 79 % 3 (satisfactory)
60 - 69 % 4 (pass)
00 - 59 % 5 (fail)

Handouts and the portfolio must adhere to the department’s style sheet for papers in literary and cultural studies.

Prüfungsstoff

No written exam

Literatur

– Baldwin, William. Beware the Cat (1561)
– Cavendish, Margaret. Blazing World (1666)
– Wells, H. G., The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
– Woolf, Virginia. Flush (1933)
– Orwell, George. Animal Farm (1945)
– Golding, William. The Inheritors (1955)
– Lessing, Doris. The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)
– Carter, Angela. ‘The Werewolf’; ‘The Company of Wolves’; ‘Wolf-Alice’ from The Bloody Chamber (1979)
– McEwan, Ian. ‘Reflections of a Kept Ape’ from In Between the Sheets (1979)
– Arnold, Amy, Slip of a Fish (2018)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: BA 612; BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BA08.3; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3000

Letzte Änderung: Di 17.10.2023 19:27