Universität Wien

120009 KO Literature: Introductory Seminar (304) = Reading Skills (2009S)

Faustian Overreachers, Satanic Rebels, and Byronic Heroes

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work

Diese LVA gilt für das Bachelorstudium nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 24 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Thursday 19.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 26.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 02.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 23.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 30.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 07.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 14.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 28.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 04.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 18.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Thursday 25.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course will take a diachronic look at the theme of the overreacher and the English literary canon from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Focusing on Marlowe's tragic appropriation of the German Faust-legend, Milton's Satan and the Byronic hero, our text-based analysis will be supplemented with contextual approaches such as new-historicist and archetypal criticism.

Assessment and permitted materials

(a) Reading Skills course: Class participation; Final exam based on a reading list which includes the texts discussed in class and a personal selection of approximately eight additional texts related to the topic of the course. The final exam subdivides into a colloquy and a written textual knowledge test. (b) Introductory seminar: Class participation; presentation; term paper, final written exam.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Analysis of poetry, drama & fiction.

Examination topics

Interactive reading skills course / introductory seminar.

Reading list

Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, John Milton's Paradise Lost, George Gordon Byron's Don Juan, Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Association in the course directory

304, 701, 1112

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