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123030 VO Literature Survey 2 (2025S)

From Restoration Comedy to Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
We 05.03. 13:15-14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10

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Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 19.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 26.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 02.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 09.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 30.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 07.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 14.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 21.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 28.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 04.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 11.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 18.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10
  • Wednesday 25.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Auditorium Maximum Tiefparterre Hauptgebäude Stiege 10

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course


Providing readings in narrative fiction, drama, poetry, and non-literary prose from the Restoration to the 21st century, this lecture course examines the history of English literature as a series of complex aesthetic responses to cultural and political change.

Teaching methods: lecture & ppps & Q&As & online self tests with every session.

Recordings of live sessions will be placed on moodle.

Assessment and permitted materials

Exam (on-site multiple choice test; 40 questions/60 minutes; at least one answer will be correct, at least one answer will be incorrect; for sample exam questions please see self-tests on moodle)

No study aids permitted during the exam

1st sitting: last session of term

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

1: 100 – 89,99%
2: 89,98 – 79,99%
3: 79,98 – 69,99%
4: 69,98 – 59,99%
5: 59,98% and below

Examination topics

The course's individual sessions (incl. ppt slides, recordings, readings & additional preparatory material) comprise the information you will be tested on.

For details please see the course’s moodle platform.

Reading list

Shorter texts will be announced and provided in session 1.
Long texts include:
William Wycherley: The Country Wife (will be provided)
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Samuel Richardson: Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded
Mary Shelley-Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein
George Eliot: Adam Bede
Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound (will be provided)
Andrea Levy, Small Island

Recommended background reading:
Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context. Cambridge: CUP, 2017.
Hans-Ulrich Seeber et al., Englische Literaturgeschichte. Berlin: Metzler, 2012.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612, EC 125, EC 126; BEd 046
Code/Modul: BA08.2; Literaturgeschichte / Survey 2 - EC; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3030

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