Universität Wien

132341 VO Poetics and narratives of contemporary Finnish prose (2017W)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 13 - Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

Blocklehrveranstaltung 20.11. bis 01.12.2017.

Am Mittwoch, 22.11.2017 und am Dienstag, 28.11.2017 finden die Unterrichtseinheiten von 10:30 bis 12:00 Uhr, im Dienstzimmer Prof. Laakso, 2L-02-02 statt.
Donnerstag, 30.11.2017 14:30 bis 16:00 Uhr, Dienstzimmer Prof. Laakso, 2L-02-02
Freitag, 01.12.2017 11:30 bis 14:30 Uhr, Dienstzimmer Prof. Laakso, 2L-02-02
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Details

Language: German, English, Finnish

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 20.11. 10:30 - 12:00 Dissertantenzi. Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-12
  • Tuesday 21.11. 10:30 - 12:00 Dissertantenzi. Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-12
  • Thursday 23.11. 09:00 - 10:30 Dissertantenzi. Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-12
  • Friday 24.11. 08:30 - 10:30 Hörsaal 2 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-02
  • Friday 24.11. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 2 Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-02
  • Monday 27.11. 10:30 - 12:00 Dissertantenzi. Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-12
  • Wednesday 29.11. 10:30 - 12:00 Dissertantenzi. Inst. f. Finno-Ugristik, UniCampus Hof 7 2L-O1-12

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

After completing the course, the student is able to:

• Describe some of the main poetic currents and undercurrents in Finnish contemporary prose literature and the traditions or larger phenomena behind these poetics
• Describe the diversity of the Finnish 2000s prose literature
• Understand the materialist-discursive take on literature
• Understand the basics of narratology and narrative analysis and it’s critique
• Analyse the poetics of prose literature

Content:

This course reconsiders how contemporary Finnish prose employs, reflects, explores and modifies poetics and narratives. Course explores both well-known, often award-winning, high/middle-brow mainstream novels from 2000s and some more marginal or experimental texts. The focus is on their form, content, structure and genealogy. The aim is at understanding how prose literature constructs itself and it’s poetics by repeating and modifying genres, traditions, tropes, medialities, cultural phenomena and various forms of texts and other materials.

Modes of Study:
Lectures, text analyses, group work and private study

Assessment and permitted materials

Written exam.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Describing the main poetic phenomena in contemporary Finnish prose literature, knowing the materialist-discursive point of view and narrative analysis of literature

Examination topics

Reading list

Reading list (in Finnish, English or German), to be read at least partially before the course:
- Johanna Sinisalo: Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi (2000)
- Monika Fagerholm: Amerikkalainen tyttö (2004)
- Mikko Rimminen: Pussikaljaromaani (2004)
- Sofi Oksanen: Puhdistus (2008)
- Rosa Liksom: Hytti nro 6 (2011)
- Laura Lindstedt: Oneiron (2015)
- Jukka Viikilä: Akvarelleja Engelin kaupungista (2016)
Articles on narrative analysis and materialist-discursive theory, and texts to analyse are delivered during the course.

Association in the course directory

BFe 341

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