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)

• EXAM STEOP Modulprüfung M 1a:Einführung in das Fach
• 135011 VO ( OV STEOP ) STEOP: General Literature
• 135012 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Comparative Literature

Modul 1b: Scientific Literature Techniques (5 ECTS)

• EXAM 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)

• 135031 VO Literary Theory (VO): Ghost and Spirit - On the Theory of the Gothic Novel
• 135032 PS Literary Theory (PS): Sociology of literature
• 135034 PS Literary Theory (PS): (De-)Constructions of the ‚Self‘ and the ‚Other‘

Module 4: Literary Transfer (15 ECTS)

• 134043 SE [ de nl ] Literary Seminar: Georg Hermanowski - Mediator between Dutch and German language area
• 135041 PS PS Literary Cross-Currents: The literary field in Austria after 1945
• 135042 PS PS Lit. Cross-Currents: The ballad - aesthetic, moral and political dimensions of a genre
• 135043 PS Literary Cross-Currents (PS): German-French Literary Transfer in the era of Romanticism
• 135044 PS Literary Cross-Currents: The US-American Protomodernism and its German Counterpart
• 135045 VO Reflections of World Literature - Internat. Classics and their German-Language Reception

Module 5: Social History of Literature (15 ECTS)

• 135051 PS PS Social history of literature: Unsettling Settings - Psychiatric Institutions in Fiction
• 135052 PS [ en ] Social History of Lit. (PS): Post Soviet Literature
• 135053 PS [ en ] PS Social history of literature: Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Theory
• 135054 PS Social History of Literature (PS): Violence and Literature - or the heuristic function of literature in the face of violence
• 135055 VO Social History of Literature (VO): Subversive Humour in Literature

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

• 120006 VO [ en ] Approaching Literatures in English
• 123010 VO [ en ] ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to the Study of Literature
• 123020 VO [ en ] Literature Survey 1
• 124070 VO [ en ] Culture, Society and the Media - Powerful Images: Representing Race, Class and Gender in the Media
• 290055 VO [ en ] Climate Change and Climate Crisis. Future perspectives and concepts.

Module 7: Second Foreign Language (15 ECTS)

• 133271 UE [ da ] Danish 2
• 133275 UE [ no ] Norwegian 2
• 133277 UE [ sv ] Swedish 2
• 133385 UE [ de yi ] Yiddish 1
• 134011 UE [ nl ] Dutch Language Acquisition I
• 134031 UE [ nl ] Dutch Language Acquisition II
• 135071 UE [ de it ] Second Foreign Language: Italian for Literature Students - Lilli Gruber
• 135072 UE [ de 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 III

Elective Modules Group (15 ECTS)

Module 8: Comparative Literary History (15 ECTS)

Module 9: Knowledge of World Literature (15 ECTS)

• 090096 VO [ en ] Mediterranean Poetic Modernism between West and East: George Seferis, Odysseas Elytis
• 090101 PS Byzantine Studies (PS)

Module 10: Applied Literature Studies (15 ECTS)

• 135101 UE Public Relations
• 135102 UE Public Relations
• 190120 PR M16 Science Practicum - Library placement - Students tutoring students

Bachelormodule (15 ECTS)

Module 11: Bachelor's Theses (15 ECTS)

• 135111 SE Bachelor Thesis: Autofiction and Gender. Autofictional Writing during the last 20 years
• 135112 SE BA thesis: East-European Avantgarde in the first half of the 20th century
• 135114 SE BA thesis: Unreliable Narration

Master Comparative Literature (870)

Module 1: Literary Cross-Currents (30 ECTS)

• 135811 SE Master Seminar: >Gained in translation<. - Wie Übersetzungen die Rezeption von klassischen Texten formen
• 135812 SE Construction of Suspense
• 135813 KO KO: Authors of World Literature as Characters - Strategien der Literarisierung, Fiktionalisierung, Mythisierung und Ikonisierung
• 135814 KO KO Literar. Cross-Currents: Madame de Staël and European Romanticism
• 135815 SE MA-Seminar: (Post-)pandemic Worlds in Literature and Film

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

• 135821 SE Master Seminar: Finnegans Wake: Biography of a Novel
• 135822 SE Master Seminar: Metatheatre
• 135823 KO KO: The Uncanny: Haunted Houses in the Literature by Women
• 135824 KO [ en ] Social History of Literature: Institutions of African LiteratureS: Past, Present, FutureS
• 143134 KU Imagining the New Diasporas and African Literature in the 21st Century
• 143356 KU [ en ] Afriphone Literatures: From Oral to Written Texts in African Languages

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

• 090089 VO History of the Byzantine Peloponnese
• 090096 VO [ en ] Mediterranean Poetic Modernism between West and East: George Seferis, Odysseas Elytis
• 090101 PS Byzantine Studies (PS)
• 132012 KO Modernity in Central European Literatures
• 133351 UE Exercises in Cultural Studies: How to Steal a Man - the 'Story from Danzig' in its Manuscript and in Transliteration
• 133383 VO Introduction to the History of Yiddish Culture and Literature
• 133384 SE Seminar on Yiddish Studies: Friendship, Kinship, or Passion? - Rivalrous Types of Relationships in the premodern Yiddish Love Romance
• 143121 VO [ en ] African Women’s Writing in the 20th Century
• 143247 VO [ en ] Language and Literature in their Social Contexts
• 143248 VO Writing and Publishing in Contemporary Africa
• 150112 UE Japanese in Translation II - Theoretical Framework, Analysis and Practices of Translating a Complex Text from Japanese into German
• 290055 VO [ en ] Climate Change and Climate Crisis. Future perspectives and concepts.

Module 4: Final Module (5 ECTS)

• 135842 MA Master thesis

Extension Curriculum International Literary Transfer (163)

International Literary Transfer (15 ECTS)

• 135045 VO Reflections of World Literature - Internat. Classics and their German-Language Reception
• 135055 VO Social History of Literature (VO): Subversive Humour in Literature

Extension Curriculum Dutch Language and Culture (638)

Module I Culture, Literature and History (5 ECTS)

• 134041 VO Culture, Society, and History of the Low Countries

Module II Language Acquisition I (10 ECTS)

• 134011 UE [ nl ] Dutch Language Acquisition I

Extension Curriculum Dutch in a Global Context (637)

Module I Grundkenntnisse (5 ECTS)

Module Ia Basics - Language Acquisition II (5 ECTS)

• 134031 UE [ nl ] Dutch Language Acquisition II

Module Ib Basics - Global Context (5 ECTS)

Module II Circulation of Literature (5 ECTS)

• 134043 SE [ de nl ] Literary Seminar: Georg Hermanowski - Mediator between Dutch and German language area

Module III Social History of Dutch Literature (5 ECTS)