Universität Wien

124643 VO BEd 04.3: History of Literatures in English (2022S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
MIXED
Moodle

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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 09.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 16.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 23.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 30.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 06.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 27.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 04.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 11.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 18.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 25.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 01.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 08.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 15.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre
  • Wednesday 22.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Audimax, alte WU, Augasse 2-6, OG01
    Hybride Lehre

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Providing readings in narrative fiction, drama, poetry, and non-fictional prose, this course offers an introduction to the development of English and American literature. Lectures will examine literary history as a series of complex aesthetic responses to cultural and political change.

Teaching methods: lecture & ppps & Q&A & flipped-classroom & online self tests with each session

Assessment and permitted materials

exam (on-site multiple choice test; 40 questions/60 minutes; at least one answer correct, at least one answer incorrect; for 50+ sample exam questions please see moodle)

No course books/study aids permitted for the exam

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 presentations (incl. ppt slides & additional preparatory material) will form the basis of your studying for the exam.
For more details please see the course’s moodle platform.

Reading list

Excerpts and shorter texts are collected in a course reader.
Details will be announced in session 1.
Longer texts are available from Facultas (campus, court 1) and include:
- *Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe.
- *Samuel Richardson: Pamela, or, Virtue Rewarded.
- Mary Shelley-Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein.
- *George Eliot: Adam Bede.
- *Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter.
- Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- *Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
- John Barth, "Lost in the Funhouse"
*Mandatory chapters will be announced in session 1.

Recommended background reading:
Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context. Cambridge: CUP, 2017.
Peter Conn, The Cambridge Illustrated History of American Literature. CUP 1989.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BEd 04.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4643

Last modified: Th 11.05.2023 11:27