Universität Wien

127010 KO Critical Readings in Literature (2021S)

Literature and Art

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

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. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

Vorläufig online
Dienstag 10:15-11:45
Beginn: 09.03.2021

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this Critical Readings course we will look at literary texts dealing with art and explore the ways in which art has inspired the literary imagination. Apart from analysing the concepts of art and the artist as reflected in a variety of genres from different periods of time we will also pay attention to the relationship between literature and art by looking at the interface of verbal and visual modes of representation. Participants will deepen their knowledge of terminology central to the interpretation of literary texts and will apply a range of critical and theoretical approaches to narrative fiction, poetry and drama.
Methods:
In-class discussions, reading assignments, oral presentations, group work, written assignments, eLearning

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular attendance and active participation in discussions; oral presentations; portfolio consisting of individual assignments to be specified

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

45 points: portfolio
30 points: oral presentation(s)
25 points: active participation and short assignments

All course requirements need to be fulfilled for a positive grade. Students have to score at least 60 points altogether to pass this course.

Grading scale:
1: 100-91
2: 90-81
3: 80-71
4: 70-60
5: 59-0

Examination topics

Everything covered in class, including all the mandatory texts, presentations, in-class discussions and the portfolio; no final exam

Reading list

Texts to be discussed:
E.A. Poe, “The Oval Portrait”
A.S. Byatt, “Medusa’s Ankles”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (to buy)
Tom Stoppard, Travesties (to buy)
Poems:
John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
William Carlos Williams, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”
W.H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”
Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”
Hilda Doolittle, “Oread”

The short stories and poems mentioned above as well as background and theoretical reading will be provided as pdf files on Moodle.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612; BEd 046/407
Code/Modul: BA08.3; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3000

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