Comparative Literature

Bachelor Comparative Literature (670 [2] - Version 2011)

Introductory and Orientation Period (15 ECTS)

Module 1a: Introduction to the Subject (10 ECTS)

• 135011 VO ( OV STEOP ) STEOP: General Literature
• 135012 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Comparative Literature

Modul 1b: Scientific Literature Techniques (5 ECTS)

• 135013 UE ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I
• 135014 UE ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I
• 135015 UE ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I
• 135016 UE ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I

Compulsory Modules (75 ECTS)

Module II: Other Basic Scienific Literary Skills (5 ECTS)

• 135021 UE Literary Research II

Module 3: Literary Theory (10 ECTS)

• 132102 VO Theory of Cultural Studies: Migration
• 135031 VO Literary Theory (VO): The uncanniness of signs - - poststructuralist literary theory and philosophy
• 135032 PS Literary Theory (PS) - Intertextuality and Intermediality
• 135033 PS Literary Theory (PS): Dichotomies as a tool in literary theory - als literaturtheoretisches Werkzeug

Module 4: Literary Transfer (15 ECTS)

• 135041 PS [ en ] PS Literary Cross-Currents: Introduction to postcolonial literature and theory
• 135042 PS [ en ] Lit.Cross-Currents (PS): The European Roots of Russian Modernism
• 135043 PS Literary Cross-Currents (PS): Austrian Literary Periodicals after 1945
• 135044 PS Lit. Cross-Currents (PS): Don Quijote. Reception, Translation, Intermediality
• 135045 VO Literary Cross-Currents (VO): Reflections of World Literature III

Module 5: Social History of Literature (15 ECTS)

• 135051 PS PS Social history of literature: The city of Berlin in literature
• 135052 PS Social History of Lit. (PS): Autobiographical Writing in the Age of Enlightenment
• 135053 PS PS Social history of literature: The Poet as Intellectual
• 135054 PS Social History of Literature (PS): Worldliterature - Womens' Literature: Common Grounds
• 135055 VO Social history of lit. (VO): History of the European serial novel
• 135056 VO Social history of literature (VO): Lecture Series "The Press Clipping"

Module 6: English for Students of Literature (15 ECTS)

• 120013 VO [ en ] Approaching Literatures in English
• 120014 VO [ en ] Culture, Society and the Media - Powerful Images: Representing Race, Class and Gender in the Media
• 123010 VO [ en ] ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to the Study of Literature
• 123020 VO [ en ] Literature Survey 1 - From the Renaissance to the Restoration - A Brief Survey

Module 7: Second Foreign Language (15 ECTS)

• 135071 UE [ de it ] Second Foreign Language: Italian for Literature Students
• 135072 UE [ fr ] French for Students of Literature
• 135073 UE [ de fr ] Second Foreign Language: French for Literature Students
• 135074 UE [ es ] Second Foreign Language: Spanish for Students of Literature
• 135075 UE [ en ru ] Second modern foreign language: Russian I

Elective Modules Group (15 ECTS)

Module 8: Comparative Literary History (15 ECTS)

• 132102 VO Theory of Cultural Studies: Migration
• 132562 VO [ de en ] Aspects of Minority Literatures
• 140137 VO [ en ] Language and Literature in their Social Contexts

Module 9: Knowledge of World Literature (15 ECTS)

• 140015 VO [ en ] Race, Gender and Sexuality in African Literature
• 140137 VO [ en ] Language and Literature in their Social Contexts
• 140239 VO Mediality and Intermediality in African Literatures - Critical Interventions of the "medial turn"

Module 10: Applied Literature Studies (15 ECTS)

• 135101 UE Public Relations
• 135102 UE Public Relations
• 190106 PR M16 Science Practicum - Library placement - Students tutoring students

Bachelormodule (15 ECTS)

Module 11: Bachelor's Theses (15 ECTS)

• 135111 SE Bachelor Thesis: Literary Transfer between France and Austria after 1945
• 135112 SE Bachelor Thesis: Historical Fiction (novella, novel)
• 135113 SE BA thesis: The Ukrainian and Russian Avantgarde in the Context of the European Art
• 135114 SE BA thesis: Literature and Money/Money in Literature
• 480120 SE Czech and Slovak artistic and scientific avant-garde - B.A. Seminar on Literature

Master Comparative Literature (870)

Module 1: Literary Cross-Currents (30 ECTS)

• 135811 SE Master Seminar: Marcel Proust - his writings, his importance for world literature, his reception
• 135812 SE Apocalypsis now: Dystopia in Samjatin, Orwell, Huxley and others
• 135813 KO KO Literar. Cross-Currents: Literature and Film. - From Book to Film Schript (Coppola, Kubrick, Truffaut and others )
• 135814 KO KO Literary Cross-Currents: Counter-Culture and Canon

Module 2: Social History of Literature/Literature and Media (30 ECTS)

• 135821 SE Master Seminar: Literary Censorship in the 18th and 19th Centuries
• 135822 SE Master Seminar: Krieg und Welt
• 135823 KO [ en ] KO: Mapping Gothic
• 135824 KO Digital literature studies: text corpora and text interpretation
• 140034 KU Identity Crisis in African Diaspora Literature

Module 3: In-Depth Studies Module (30 ECTS)

• 132562 VO [ de en ] Aspects of Minority Literatures
• 140015 VO [ en ] Race, Gender and Sexuality in African Literature
• 140137 VO [ en ] Language and Literature in their Social Contexts
• 140239 VO Mediality and Intermediality in African Literatures - Critical Interventions of the "medial turn"
• 140248 VO Writing and Publishing in Contemporary Africa

Module 4: Final Module (5 ECTS)

• 135841 MA Master-Seminar - MA-Betreuungsseminar (Privatissimum)
• 135842 MA Master thesis

Extension Curriculum International Literary Transfer (163)

International Literary Transfer (15 ECTS)

• 132562 VO [ de en ] Aspects of Minority Literatures
• 135045 VO Literary Cross-Currents (VO): Reflections of World Literature III
• 135055 VO Social history of lit. (VO): History of the European serial novel
• 135056 VO Social history of literature (VO): Lecture Series "The Press Clipping"