120016 VO Literature Course - 17th Century English Metaphysical Poetry (2008W)
Labels
Diese LVA gilt für das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).
Details
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 13.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 20.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 27.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 03.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 10.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 17.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 24.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 01.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 15.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 12.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 19.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
- Monday 26.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
This lecture class will be concerned with literature written for young readers in the English language. We will look both at some great classics of British and American literature from the 19th and 20th centuries and at more recent prize winners and bestsellers, combining textual analysis with cultural studies and a range of literary theories. Questions that will be addressed in the lecture concern the multiple readership for children's literature, political correctness and critical pedagogies, issues of gender, ethnicity and class, the market for children's and young adults' literature, as well as the potential for teaching these texts in the English language classroom. It is especially (but not exclusively) recommended for future teachers of English!
Assessment and permitted materials
final written exam
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
- Students will be introduced to the wide range of writing in English for young readers and to the critical debates that this literature has engendered.
- Students will learn to integrate their knowledge of literary studies, literary theories, and cultural studies in the exploration of a specific field of literary writing.
- Students will explore the potential of children's and young adults' literature for the EFL classroom.
- Students will critically investigate the construction of children and childhood, but also of identity issues such as gender, ethnicity, class, and nationality, in literary texts.
- Students will learn to integrate their knowledge of literary studies, literary theories, and cultural studies in the exploration of a specific field of literary writing.
- Students will explore the potential of children's and young adults' literature for the EFL classroom.
- Students will critically investigate the construction of children and childhood, but also of identity issues such as gender, ethnicity, class, and nationality, in literary texts.
Examination topics
interactive lecture course supported by e-learning platform, multimedia applications
Reading list
Poems on the "Reading List" (see notice board); a reader will be prepared and can be ordered from the secretary's office in October.
Association in the course directory
321, 326, 336, 722
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33