13.04. Comparative Literature

A [2]. Bachelor Degree Programme in Comparative Literature

Orientation Period

Module Ia: Introduction to the subject

• 130061 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: General Literature
• 130062 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Comparative Literature

Modul Ib: Scientific literature techniques

• 130064 UE ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I
• 130065 UE ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I
• 130067 UE ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I
• 130131 UE ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I

Study Stage

Module II: Other basic scienific literary skills

• 130066 UE Literary Research II

Module 3: Literary Theory

• 130073 VO Literary Theory (VO): Methods of literary criticism, in historical comparison
• 130095 PS Literary Theory (PS)
• 130203 PS Literary Theory (PS) - Theories of the detective story

Module 4: Literary Transfer

• 130068 VO Literary Cross-Currents (VO): Time and Memory in the modern novel
• 130072 PS [ en ] Lit.Cross-Currents (PS): Soviet Literature. Myths and Realities
• 130079 VO Literary Cross-Currents (VO): TRANSEUROPA
• 130104 PS Literary Cross-Currents (PS)
• 130113 PS Lit. Cross-Currents (PS): War literature as cultural transfer
• 130306 PS Literary cross-currents: Historical novels around the phenomenon "Vienna around 1900"
• 130078 PS Literary Cross Currents (PS) - focus on Afro-American literature

Module 5: Social History of Literature

• 130086 PS PS Social history of literature: Letter - Literature - Gender
• 130090 VO Social history of literature (VO): Between Literature and Philosophy - Adorno, Benjamin, Camus, Cassirer, Foucault, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Schiller
• 130091 PS Social History of Literature (PS): The regional detective story
• 130094 PS [ en ] Social History of Literature (PS): The Romantic Fairytale: Origina (1350-1817) - From Robin Hood to 'The Sandman'
• 130199 PS [ en ] Social History of Lit. (PS): Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Theory
• 130306 PS Literary cross-currents: Historical novels around the phenomenon "Vienna around 1900"
• 140066 VO [ en ] Contemporary African Literature: Resistance and Social Engagement
• 140133 VO [ en ] Language and Literature in their Social Contexts
• 140248 VO [ en ] Literature in the Field: The Work of African Writers' Organisations

Module 6: English for Students of Literature

• 120013 VO [ en ] Approaching Literatures in English
• 123010 VO [ en ] ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to the Study of Literature
• 123020 VO [ en ] Literature Survey 1
• 124071 VO [ en ] Culture, Society and the Media - Transnational Trauma and Cultures: Experience, Representation and Resilience

Module 7: Second Foreign Language

• 130071 UE [ fr ] French for Students of Literature
• 130074 UE [ de fr ] Second Foreign Language: French for Literature Students
• 130075 UE [ es ] Second Foreign Language: Spanish for Students of Literature
• 130077 UE [ en ru ] Second modern foreign language: Russian III
• 130087 UE [ de it ] Second Foreign Language: Italian for Literature Students
• 130116 UE [ en ru ] More modern foreign language: Russian I

Module 8: Comparative Literary History

• 140066 VO [ en ] Contemporary African Literature: Resistance and Social Engagement

Module 9: Knowledge of World Literature

Module 10: Applied Literature Studies

• 130076 UE Public Relations: "Not yet published" - Arbeiten an und mit Buch-Novitäten
• 130088 UE Public Relations

Final Stage

Module 11: Bachelor's Theses

• 130080 SE Bachelor Thesis: Methodology of interpretation - Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
• 130092 SE BA thesis: Reaction and Rebellion
• 130101 SE BA thesis: Interactions between cultures. Translated literature - within the literary polysystem
• 130115 SE Bachelor Thesis

B. Master Degree Programme in Comparative Literature

Module 1: Literary Cross-Currents

• 130093 KO KO Literar. Cross-Currents: Roland Barthes - Barthes´ Spätwerk. Intensivlektüren von Das Neutrum und Die Vorbereitung des Romans
• 130099 SE Master Seminar: Distant Reading: Space in the Novel
• 130136 SE Psychoanalysis in literature

Module 2: Social History of Literature/Literature and Media

• 130083 SE Master Seminar: Ecocriticism
• 130084 SE Master Seminar: Thomas Mann's 'The Magic Mountain' - Importance, genre, reception, translations, universal fame
• 130134 KO Digital corpus analysis

Module 3: In-Depth Studies Module

• 140066 VO [ en ] Contemporary African Literature: Resistance and Social Engagement

Module 4: Final Module

• 130081 MA Master seminar
• 130096 MA Master-Seminar - MA-Betreuungsseminar (Privatissimum)

D. Complementary Study Programme International literary Transfer

• 130068 VO Literary Cross-Currents (VO): Time and Memory in the modern novel
• 130079 VO Literary Cross-Currents (VO): TRANSEUROPA
• 130090 VO Social history of literature (VO): Between Literature and Philosophy - Adorno, Benjamin, Camus, Cassirer, Foucault, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Schiller