Universität Wien

129007 AR Theory (MA) (2014S)

10 literary theories

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

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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 19.03. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 26.03. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 02.04. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 09.04. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 30.04. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 07.05. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 14.05. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 21.05. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 28.05. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 04.06. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 11.06. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 18.06. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Wednesday 25.06. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course will familiarise students with ten theoretical approaches to literature: Russian Formalism/ New Criticism, New Historicism, Phenomenology/Reader Response, Psychoanalysis, Post-structuralism, Feminism, Marxism, Postcolonialism, recent theories of affect and trauma.
Students will become acquainted with individual schools of thought, their socio-historical contexts and leading figures. We will read key-texts by seminal thinkers such as Umberto Eco, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, Michiel Foucault, Karl Marx, Eve Kosofsky, Julia Kristeva, Frantz Fanon and many others.
We will apply individual theoretical texts and concepts to one of the most controversial novels of the English canon: J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999).

Assessment and permitted materials

weekly assignments, active participation in class, oral presentation, regular attendance, final test/paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

to familiarise students with philosophical concepts (hermeneutics, epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, Hegelian dialectics, logocentrism); to introduce students to major theoretical frameworks; to engage in multiple modes of reading and encountering texts.

Examination topics

classroom discussions, presentations, research assignments;

Reading list

A reader will be provided at the beginning of the course with extracts from The John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory (2005), Criticism and the Critical Tradition (2006) – available for purchase from the bookshop Facultas; J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) will be also available at Facultas and other campus bookstores!

Association in the course directory

Studium: MA 844;
Code/Modul: MA3;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0192

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