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125260 VO Cultural Studies - MA M01 (2014S)
The Many Faces of Biography
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max. 150 participants
Language: English
Examination dates
Thursday
26.06.2014
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Tuesday
30.09.2014
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Friday
12.12.2014
10:00 - 12:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Monday
26.01.2015
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Thursday
13.03.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Thursday
20.03.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Thursday
27.03.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Thursday
03.04.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Thursday
10.04.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Thursday
08.05.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Thursday
15.05.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Thursday
22.05.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Thursday
05.06.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Thursday
12.06.
18:30 - 20:00
Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Written final test (end of June, early October, early December, or end of January).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
It is the aim of this lecture course to acquaint students with various biographical practices in a range of different media and to provide them with a theoretical framework for the study of biography.
Examination topics
Lecture course ("Ringvorlesung"); classroom discourse will be supplemented by visual aids (ppt, websites, excerpts from documentary and feature films).
Reading list
Material for required and ancillary reading will be provided on an e-learning platform. Therefore, students are asked to familiarise themselves in advance with the MOODLE platform. For introduction and self-guided tour, please see <https://elearning.univie.ac.at/>.
Association in the course directory
Studium: MA 812, MA 844;
Code: MA 1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-5260
Code: MA 1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-5260
Last modified: We 09.09.2020 00:22
This interdisciplinary lecture series will bring together renowned scholars from different fields working on various historical epochs and auto/biographical practices. Themes that will occupy us throughout include subject representation and the notion of biographical truth, the questions whose lives get told, for what reasons, and in what form. Next to the conventional book-length treatment of a life we will critically investigate alternative and innovative forms of life-writing, such as fictional biographies, bio pics, bio plays, and virtual biographies.13.3. Werner Huber & Julia Lajta-Novak (University of Vienna):
Introduction20.3. Birgit Däwes (University of Vienna):
"Biography on Stage: Performing Native American Lives"27.3. Ed Saunders (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Vienna):
"Meta-Biography: Critical Approaches to Writing Lives"03.4. Clare Brant (King's College, London):
"The Eighteenth-Century Letter as Public Auto/Biography"10.4. Caitriona Ni D'huill (Durham University):
"Approaching the Master: Gender, Genre and (Meta)Biography, from Thomas Carlyle to Colm Tóibín"08.5. Sandra Mayer (Vienna):
"Literary Biography and Celebrity: Re-Evaluating Victorian Authors from the Perspective of Celebrity Studies"15.5. Claire Tomalin (London):
"The Challenges of Biography"22.5. Peter Morgan (London/Vienna):
"Biography and the Screenwriter"05.6. Vanessa Hannesschläger, Tobias Heinrich, Katharina Prager (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Biographie, Vienna):
"Virtual Biography: Life-Writing in New Media"12.6. Julia Lajta-Novak (University of Vienna):
"Biography to Romance: Fictionalising Nell Gwyn"26.6. Final Test.Department of English and American Studies, in cooperation with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography.