Universität Wien

127011 KO Critical Readings in Literature (2022S)

Rive Gauche: Expatriate Writing in Paris

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

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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 (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 10.03. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 17.03. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 24.03. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 31.03. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 07.04. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 28.04. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 05.05. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 12.05. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 19.05. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 02.06. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 09.06. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 23.06. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Thursday 30.06. 10:15 - 11:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

“Paris was the place that suited us who were to create the twentieth-century art and literature”, Gertrude Stein famously remarked.
In this Critical Readings course we will discuss works by American and Irish/English writers who went to the French capital in the first decades of the 20th century. We will explore the ways in which Paris, and the Left Bank in particular, as a site of modernist production, artistic experiment and cultural exchange inspired the literary imagination. Special emphasis will be placed on Modernism as an urban and international movement and on the roles played by the Little Magazines, the (literary) salons, and Sylvia Beach’s bookshop “Shakespeare and Company”.
Participants will become familiar with avant-garde and high modernist writing, deepen their knowledge of terminology central to the analysis of literary texts, and apply a range of critical and theoretical approaches to narrative fiction and poetry.

Methods:
In-class discussions, reading assignments, oral presentations, group work, written assignments, mini-lectures, eLearning

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular attendance (max. 2 absences) and active participation in discussions; oral presentations; portfolio consisting of individual assignments

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

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

Students have to score at least 60 points altogether to pass this course.
Please send the portfolio tasks as .doc files to elke.mettinger-schartmann@univie.ac.at and upload them as pdf files on Turnitin.

Grading scale:
1: 100-90 points
2: 89-80 points
3: 79-70 points
4: 69-60 points
5: 59-0 points

Examination topics

Everything covered in class, including all the mandatory texts, presentations, in-class discussions and the portfolio. There will be no written exam.

Reading list

Book to buy:
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

short stories:
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited”
Ernest Hemingway, “Cat in the Rain”
James Joyce, “Eveline”
Jean Rhys, “In a Café”, “In the Luxemburg Gardens”

poems:
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Hilda Doolittle, “Oread”
Ezra Pound, excerpt of Canto LXXX; “In a Station of the Metro”
William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”

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

Association in the course directory

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

Last modified: Sa 12.02.2022 00:06