Universität Wien

160062 PS Literary Theory (PS): Philosophical Aspects of the Modernist Novel (2011S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musik-, Sprach- und Vergleichende Literaturwisse
Continuous assessment of course work

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 10.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 17.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 24.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 31.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 07.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 14.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 05.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 12.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 19.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 26.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 09.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 16.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Thursday 30.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this course we will discuss particular philosophical topics and key concepts which were important for the modernist novel and how they were creatively adapted by the modernists. Among these topics are the theories of time, memory and the stream of consciousness developed by Henri Bergson and Williams James and used by Proust in his "Recherche...", by Joyce in "Ulysses", Virginia Woolf etc. A further topic will be Primitivism and the unconsciousness.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regelmäßige Anwesenheit, Mitarbeit, Protokolle, Referate, Hausarbeiten.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Die Studierenden sollen mit der engen unnd wechselseitigen Verbindung von philosophischer Theorie und Roman im Modernismus vertraut gemnacht werden.

Examination topics

Kurze Ausführungen des LV-Leiters, Erarbeitung der Primär- und Sekundärtexte in Referaten und in gemeinsamer Lektüre.

Reading list

MODERNISM, A SOURCEBOOK, ed. by Steven Matthews, Palgrave 2008;
Silvio Vietta, DER EUROPÄISCHE ROMAN DER MODERNE, UTB 2007;

Weitere Literatur in der 1. Sitzung und auf Fronter.

Association in the course directory

Diplomstudium VL 113,
BA M3

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