Comparative Literature

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

• 135001 OV Orientation Course for beginners of BA Comparative Literature

Introductory and Orientation Period (15 ECTS)

• 135001 OV Orientation Course for beginners of BA Comparative Literature

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

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

Modul 1b: Scientific Literature Techniques (5 ECTS)

• 135013 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Literary Research I

Compulsory Modules (75 ECTS)

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

• 135021 UE Advanced Research Techniques
• 135022 UE Advanced Research Techniques
• 135023 UE Advanced Research Techniques

Module 3: Literary Theory (10 ECTS)

Modul 3: Proseminar (5 ECTS)

• 133241 PS ( ON-SITE ) Proseminar: Reading scandinavian literatures through a postcolonial lense
• 135031 PS Literary Theory (PS): Between Fact and Fiction: Narrating the Shoah
• 135033 PS Lit- Theory (PS): Intensive Animal Agriculture in Literature
• 135034 PS [ en ] Literary Theory (PS): Feminist Literary Theory and Queer Reading

Modul 3: Vorlesung (5 ECTS)

• 135030 VO Literary Theory (VO): Comparative Media Studies

Module 4: Literary Transfer (15 ECTS)

Modul 4: Proseminare (10 ECTS)

• 090115 UE [ en ] Fables in Motion: The Transformation of Greek Animal Narratives
• 134132 PS [ en ] Small is Great. The International Circulation of Literature from the Low Countries
• 135041 PS Games and Literature
• 135042 PS How international is Science Fiction?
• 135043 PS [ en ] African and African-diasporic Literatures in Ted Talks and Podcasts
• 135044 PS Icy Climes: History, Literary Retellings, and Contemporary Perspectives on the Polar Regions

Modul 4: Vorlesung (5 ECTS)

• 135045 VO VO: Ideas, Words, Images: The Interaction between Literature and Philosophy

Module 5: Social History of Literature (15 ECTS)

Modul 5: Proseminare (10 ECTS)

• 135042 PS How international is Science Fiction?
• 135051 PS The Poet as Intellectual
• 135052 PS [ en ] Russian Literature after 1855: Conversations across Europe and Beyond
• 135053 PS Wars in Modernist Literature
• 135054 PS Feted - persecuted - silenced: Women’s Writing under National Socialism

Modul 5: Vorlesung (5 ECTS)

• 090109 VO [ en ] Modern Greek Literature: How to think about a reading list
• 134006 VO [ en ] Colonial Past and Postcolonial Present of the Low Countries Reflected in Literature

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

• 120010 VO [ en ] Approaching Literatures in English
• 123020 VO [ en ] Literature Survey 1
• 123030 VO [ en ] Literature Survey 2 - From Restoration Comedy to Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora
• 134006 VO [ en ] Colonial Past and Postcolonial Present 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
• 135073 UE [ de fr ] French for Literature Students
• 135074 UE [ de es ] Spanish for Students of Literature
• 135075 UE [ en ru ] Russian II for Students of Literature
• 133261 UE [ da de ] ( ON-SITE ) Danish 1
• 133263 UE [ de is ] ( ON-SITE ) Icelandic 1
• 133267 UE [ de sv ] ( ON-SITE ) Swedish 1
• 133265 UE [ de no ] ( ON-SITE ) Norwegian 1

Elective Modules Group (15 ECTS)

Module 8: Comparative Literary History (15 ECTS)

• 100026 UV History of Literature 1848 - Present
• 100028 UV History of Literature 750 - 1600
• 123020 VO [ en ] Literature Survey 1
• 123030 VO [ en ] Literature Survey 2 - From Restoration Comedy to Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora
• 132010 VO Introduction to the History of Finnish Literature 1
• 132023 VO Introduction to the History of Hungarian Literature 1
• 133231 VO ( ON-SITE ) History of Scandinavian Literatures
• 480058 VO Newer Czech Literature: An Overview
• 480060 VO Newer Ukrainian Literature: An Overview
• 480061 VO Newer Bulgarian Literature: An Overview
• 480066 VO Newer Polish Literature: An Overview
• 480067 VO Newer Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Literature: An Overview
• 480068 VO Newer Russian Literature: An Overview

Module 9: Knowledge of World Literature (15 ECTS)

• 060039 VO Cultural and Literary Landscapes of Galicia and Bukovina: The Work of Jewish Authors
• 100010 VO Lecture course: Medieval and Early German Literature
• 100113 VO Lecture course: Modern German Literature - Geflügelte Wesen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
• 132019 VO Course in Literary Studies: Literary dystopias. The case of Hungary
• 132066 VO [ en ] VO Contemporary Hungarian Literature - Space, Borders and Imagination in Hungarian and Central European Narratives
• 143001 VO [ en ] Southern African Literatures
• 143201 VO [ en ] Race, Gender and Sexuality in African Literature

Module 10: Applied Literature Studies (15 ECTS)

M 10: Angewandte Literaturwissenschaft UE (5 ECTS)

• 190120 PR M16 Science Practicum - Library placement - Students tutoring students

M 10: Angewandte Literaturwissenschaft VO 1 und VO 2 (10 ECTS)

• 135101 VO Literature and media
• 135102 VO Publishing and business economics, legal basics

Bachelormodule (15 ECTS)

Module 11: Bachelor's Theses (15 ECTS)

• 135111 SE BA-Thesis: Vienna around 1900 - On the Reception and Construction of an Era
• 135112 SE BA-SE: Photobiographies in the 21st Century
• 135113 SE BA SE: Spectacles of Laughter: - Comedy and its Poetics from Aristophanes to the Present
• 135114 SE BA-SE: South Sea Readings: Tahiti in European and Polynesian Literature

Master Comparative Literature (870)

• 135801 OV ( MIXED ) Orientation Course for beginners of MA Comparative Literature

Module 1: Literary Cross-Currents (30 ECTS)

SE

• 135811 SE MA-SE: Comparing folktales: a transcultural approach
• 135812 SE MA-SE: Girlies, grunge and tribals. Adaptations of classic works in 1990s cinema

KO

• 135814 KO KO : Contemporary poetry: its forms and its ghosts
• 135815 KO [ en ] KO: (More) Poets of Panglobal Pluridentities: African-Diasporic Literary Voices in Austria (Part II)
• 138516 KO [ en ] Mark Twain in Europe, Europe in Mark Twain
• 480029 SE Seminar on Literature and Culture - Posthumanism in Slavic Studies: More-than-Human Narratives in East Central European Literatures and Cultures since 1900

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

Seminare

• 135821 SE MA-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 Strategies of Textual Commentary for Modernist Novels

Konversatorien

• 135824 KO Film Adaptations of Literature. Theory and Current Examples
• 135825 KO Narrative Perspectives and the Changing Concept of the Subject
• 240011 SE Polyphonic cultures and multilingual literature in Latin America and the Caribbean

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

• 060039 VO Cultural and Literary Landscapes of Galicia and Bukovina: The Work of Jewish Authors
• 090109 VO [ en ] Modern Greek Literature: How to think about a reading list
• 090115 UE [ en ] Fables in Motion: The Transformation of Greek Animal Narratives
• 123210 VO [ en ] Literatures in English - Literature for young readers across the ages
• 132019 VO Course in Literary Studies: Literary dystopias. The case of Hungary
• 132066 VO [ en ] VO Contemporary Hungarian Literature - Space, Borders and Imagination in Hungarian and Central European Narratives
• 135840 SE Proposal-Seminar for MA-thesis
• 143001 VO [ en ] Southern African Literatures
• 143201 VO [ en ] Race, Gender and Sexuality in African Literature
• 480082 KO Colloquium on Literature and Culture - "Just visiting?" Collecting and telling stories of migration

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): Comparative Media Studies
• 135045 VO VO: Ideas, Words, Images: The Interaction between Literature and Philosophy

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)

• 134006 VO [ en ] Colonial Past and Postcolonial Present of the Low Countries Reflected in Literature
• 134132 PS [ en ] Small is Great. The International Circulation of Literature from the Low Countries

Module III Social History of Dutch Literature (5 ECTS)

• 134006 VO [ en ] Colonial Past and Postcolonial Present of the Low Countries Reflected in Literature
• 134132 PS [ en ] Small is Great. The International Circulation of Literature from the Low Countries

Extension Curriculum Dutch Language and Culture (638)

Module I Culture, Literature and History (5 ECTS)

• 134006 VO [ en ] Colonial Past and Postcolonial Present of the Low Countries Reflected in Literature

Module II Language Acquisition I (10 ECTS)

• 134013 UE [ de nl ] Dutch Language Acquisition I