Comparative Literature

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

Introductory and Orientation Period (15 ECTS)

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

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

Modul 1b: Scientific Literature Techniques (5 ECTS)

• EXAM STEOP: Literary Research I
• 135015 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I

Compulsory Modules (75 ECTS)

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

• 135021 UE Literary Research II
• 135022 UE Literary Research II

Module 3: Literary Theory (10 ECTS)

• 135030 VO Literary Theory (VO): The Indetermination of Literature - About the Fantastic of Writing
• 135032 PS [ en ] Postcolonial Literary Theory
• 135033 PS Through Wor(l)ds - Literary and Cultural Translation
• 135034 PS Narrative Techniques of Fantastic Literature

Module 4: Literary Transfer (15 ECTS)

• 135040 VO VO: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Comparative Perspectives
• 134132 PS [ de en ] Animals in Dutch Literature. Narrative Encounters with the Non-Human.
• 135041 PS Publishing after 1945: literary transfer and the role of publishing houses and publishers - in and outside Europe
• 135042 PS Narrating One's Roots: Memory and Post-Migrant Identity in Contemporary Literature
• 135043 PS Monks, Devils, and Doppelgaenger - Intertextual Readings of M.G. Lewis’ ‚The Monk‘ and E.T.A. Hoffmann's ‘Die Elixiere des Teufels’
• 135044 PS European Port City Narratives in Maritime Transfer

Module 5: Social History of Literature (15 ECTS)

• 134006 VO [ en ] Culture, Society, and History of the Low Countries Reflected in Literature
• 135050 VO VO: History of Reading: Overview and Challenges
• 135051 PS Theory and practice of social reportage
• 135052 PS The Novel - Conditions of production, publication and reception (18th-20th cent.)
• 135053 PS [ en ] Fashioning Fiction: Dress in Literature From Past to Present
• 135055 PS Gerhard Roth and the Archives of Writing
• 135056 PS Earthquakes, Thunderstorms, and other Natural Disasters in Modernist Literature
• 135057 PS [ en ] Duels and Whispers: Russian Literature and the European Imagination (1800-1855)

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

• 134006 VO [ en ] Culture, Society, and History of the Low Countries Reflected in Literature

Module 7: Second Foreign Language (15 ECTS)

• 134013 UE [ de nl ] Dutch Language Acquisition I
• 134031 UE [ nl ] Dutch Language Acquisition II
• 135071 UE [ de it ] Italian for Literature Students
• 135072 UE [ de fr ] French for Students of Literature
• 135074 UE [ de es ] Spanish for Students of Literature
• 135075 UE [ en ru ] Russian I for Students of Literature
• 133277 UE [ sv ] Swedish 2
• 133275 UE [ no ] Norwegian 2
• 133273 UE [ de is ] Icelandic 2
• 133283 UE [ is ] Icelandic 4
• 133271 UE [ da ] Danish 2

Elective Modules Group (15 ECTS)

Module 8: Comparative Literary History (15 ECTS)

Module 9: Knowledge of World Literature (15 ECTS)

Module 10: Applied Literature Studies (15 ECTS)

• 135101 UE Public Relations
• 135051 PS Theory and practice of social reportage
• 190120 PR M16 Science Practicum - Library placement - Students tutoring students

Bachelormodule (15 ECTS)

Module 11: Bachelor's Theses (15 ECTS)

• 135111 SE BA-SE: Like an Eternity: Tales of Immortality
• 135112 SE BA-SE: Food Storytelling: Culinary Motifs in Literature, Film and Pop Culture
• 135113 SE BA-SE: Colonies, maps, captains. Joseph Conrad and the imagination of global modernism
• 135114 SE BA-SE: Gender and Genre: Autofiction, Autotheory, Autosociobiography

Master Comparative Literature (870)

Module 1: Literary Cross-Currents (30 ECTS)

• 135811 SE MA-SE: Marcel Proust
• 135812 SE MA-SE: Japanese folk tales in Western languages - from romanticization and orientalization to contemporary global pop culture
• 135813 KO KO: Literature and the Museum
• 135814 KO [ en ] KO: Poets of Panglobal Pluridentities: African-Diasporic Literary Voices in Austria (Part I)

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

• 135821 SE MA-SE: Apocalypsis now! Karl Kraus - Joseph Conrad / F.F. Coppola - Thomas Pynchon - Karl Kraus - Joseph Conrad / F.F. Coppola - Thomas Pynchon
• 135822 SE MA-SE: Latin American Jewish Literature
• 135823 KO KO: A comparison of female writing in Western and Eastern European modernism and avant-garde
• 135824 KO KO: From Carrie to Cardi B: Menstruation as Taboo and Transgression in Literature and Pop Culture

Konversatorien

Seminare

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

Module 4: Final Module (5 ECTS)

• 135841 MA Master Thesis

Extension Curriculum Comparative Literature: International Transfer (163)

Comparative Literature: International Transfer (15 ECTS)

• 135030 VO Literary Theory (VO): The Indetermination of Literature - About the Fantastic of Writing
• 135040 VO VO: Literature and Psychoanalysis: Comparative Perspectives
• 135050 VO VO: History of Reading: Overview and Challenges

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)

• 134132 PS [ de en ] Animals in Dutch Literature. Narrative Encounters with the Non-Human.

Module III Social History of Dutch Literature (5 ECTS)

• 134006 VO [ en ] Culture, Society, and History of the Low Countries Reflected in Literature
• 134132 PS [ de en ] Animals in Dutch Literature. Narrative Encounters with the Non-Human.

Extension Curriculum Dutch Language and Culture (638)

Module I Culture, Literature and History (5 ECTS)

• 134006 VO [ en ] Culture, Society, and History of the Low Countries Reflected in Literature

Module II Language Acquisition I (10 ECTS)

• 134013 UE [ de nl ] Dutch Language Acquisition I