Comparative Literature

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

• 135000 UE UE Mentoring

Introductory and Orientation Period (15 ECTS)

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

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

Modul 1b: Scientific Literature Techniques (5 ECTS)

• 135013 UE ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I

Compulsory Modules (75 ECTS)

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

• 135021 UE Academic Writing and advanded Research on cultural Databases and E-media
• 135022 UE Academic Writing and advanced Research on cultural Databases and E-media

Module 3: Literary Theory (10 ECTS)

• 135031 VO Literary Theory (VO): Literature and Psychoanalysis
• 135032 PS PS Literary Theory: Theory and Practice of Hermeneutics
• 135033 PS Literary Theory (PS): The Author as Actor

Module 4: Literary Transfer (15 ECTS)

• 132008 VO Fremde in Central Europe
• 135041 PS Literary Cross-Currents (PS): Routes of Existentialism - International Impact and Literary Resonance
• 135042 PS Lit.Cross-Currents (PS): Potential and limits of poetry translation
• 135043 PS PS Literary transfer: New Perspectives on Imagology
• 135044 PS Literary Cross-Currents: The Reception of Kafka in the Anglo-American and German Area
• 135045 VO Literary Cross-Currents (VO): Comparative Literature - History and Concepts
• 135051 PS Social History of Literature (PS): Intermediality in Vienna around 1900

Module 5: Social History of Literature (15 ECTS)

• 135051 PS Social History of Literature (PS): Intermediality in Vienna around 1900
• 135052 PS Social History of Literature (PS): Literary Networks in the 18th and 19th century
• 135053 PS PS Social history of literature: The Biography of Women Writers
• 135054 PS Social History of Literature (PS): Motives and motivations of Zionist literature around 1900
• 135055 PS Social History of Literature (PS): "I would prefer not to": Poetics of Refusal
• 135056 VO History of literary translation

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

• 120013 VO [ en ] Approaching Literatures in English
• 123010 VO [ en ] ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to the Study of Literature
• 123020 VO [ en ] Literature Survey 1
• 123423 SE [ en ] Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA British/Irish/New English - Pacific Fictions: Imperialism to Decolonization
• 124070 VO [ en ] Culture, Society and the Media - Powerful Images: Representing Race, Class and Gender in the Media

Module 7: Second Foreign Language (15 ECTS)

• 133261 UE [ da de ] Danish 1
• 133265 UE [ de no ] Norwegian 1
• 133267 UE [ de sv ] Swedish 1
• 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 [ de es ] Second Foreign Language: Spanish for Students of Literature
• 135075 UE [ en ru ] Second modern foreign language: Russian II

Elective Modules Group (15 ECTS)

Module 8: Comparative Literary History (15 ECTS)

• 132008 VO Fremde in Central Europe
• 140264 VO Sexuality, Oppression, and Self-Actualization in African Diaspora's Women's Literature
• 140265 VO Gender and Performance in Contemporary South African and Zimbabwean Literatures
• 140382 VO The Arabic Literature of North Africa

Module 9: Knowledge of World Literature (15 ECTS)

Module 10: Applied Literature Studies (15 ECTS)

• 135101 VO Literature and media
• 135102 VO Publishing and business economics, legal basics
• 190106 PR M16 Science Practicum - Library placement - Students tutoring students

Bachelormodule (15 ECTS)

Module 11: Bachelor's Theses (15 ECTS)

• 135111 SE Bachelor thesis: Avantgarde in the Ukraine and Russia - Literatur, Malerei, Bühnenkunst, Film
• 135112 SE Bachelor Seminar: Authors and Artists as Characters in International Literature - Kunstschaffende Charaktere in der internationalen Literatur
• 135113 SE Bachelor Thesis: Body, Writing, Language - Yoko Tawada's Cross-Border Writing

Master Comparative Literature (870)

Module 1: Literary Cross-Currents (30 ECTS)

• 135811 KO KO: Contemporary drama V
• 135812 SE MA seminar: Canon and Other Ways of Coping with the Infinite Number of Texts
• 135813 SE MA-Seminar: The Experimental Novel in the 20th and 21st cent.
• 135814 KO KO Literar. Cross-Currents: Shakespeare's Hamlet: Text(s), Sources, Reception

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

• 135821 SE Master Seminar: "Master & servant" in the works of Diderot, Hegel and Tolstoi
• 135822 SE Master Seminar: - Cunning Animals, Human Beasts. Cross-cultural readings of jackals, cats and foxes in world literature
• 135823 KO [ en ] KO: Contemporary Feminist Theorizing

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

• 132008 VO Fremde in Central Europe
• 140264 VO Sexuality, Oppression, and Self-Actualization in African Diaspora's Women's Literature
• 140265 VO Gender and Performance in Contemporary South African and Zimbabwean Literatures
• 140382 VO The Arabic Literature of North Africa

Module 4: Final Module (5 ECTS)

• 135841 MA Master Seminar
• 135842 MA Master seminar

Extension Curriculum International Literary Transfer (163)

International Literary Transfer (15 ECTS)

• 135045 VO Literary Cross-Currents (VO): Comparative Literature - History and Concepts
• 135056 VO History of literary translation