551.216 (13W) Survey of Anglophone Literatures

Wintersemester 2013/14

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First course session
04.10.2013 12:00 - 14:00 On Campus

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Overview

Lecturer

Ao.Univ.-Prof.i.R. Mag. Dr. Adi Wimmer

Course title german

Survey of Anglophone Literatures

Type

Lecture

Hours per Week

2.0

ECTS credits

4.0

Registrations

Organisational unit

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Language of instruction

English

Course begins on

04.10.2013

Remarks (english)

This is a "KU" course with 4 ECTS credits. This means you have to put in 100 hours of work. There is a COURSE READER of app. 100 pages, and some of the exam questions will be based on the contents of the READER alone.

Time and place

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Course content

How the approximately 800 years of anglophone histories and cultures impacted on the creative writing of that world. How social changes were demanded, documented or opposed by literary artists. How the struggle for individual freedom was supported and described by them and how the sum of all these processes can be subsumed under the heading of "Modernization."

Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

Lecture input, occasional questions & debate. As in any "KU" course, you will be asked to prepare for each session, usually by tackling the respective chapter in the Course READER

Conditions of admission

zilch

Course content

Topics

From Chaucer to the Renaissance: Henry VIII and sonnettering; poetry as national discourse
Shakespeare as a human being - and writer; a close look at his poetry
His greatest plays, King Lear in particular. On to Jacobean Tragedy
The Metaphysicals. Puritanism and its culture: John Milton. The Restoration and its theatre revival.
The Enlightenment (a.k.a. Augustan Age) and the romantic rebellion against it
The 19th Century: from Jane Austen to Victorianism and moving towards literary Modernism
British Modernism (J.Joyce!) and the 20th C, also in theatre matters
Colonial American Literature, The Captivity Narrative, Cotton Mather, Phyllis Wheatley
AmLit from the Revolution to ~ 1880 (J. Fennimore Cooper,Dickinson and Whitman)
Post-Civil War writing, realism, the mud-rakers, Eugene O'Neill and Am. Drama (to 1939)
American Lit after WWII
A brief introduction to Australian Literature and Culture

Teaching objective

Students will learn how social developments produce concomitant forms of literary expression, and how literary 'traditions' evolve often in rebellion against what went before.

Prior knowledge expected

Regular participation is highly recommended. You might not pass the course otherwise. PLEASE NOTE: COURSE STARTS OCTOBER 4, 2013

Other materials

Course READER

Literature

Course reader (available at the ÖH Skriptenreferat from mid-October) REQUIRED READING: William Shakespeare. King Lear Recommended: The Pelican History of England, vols. 5-9

Examination information

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

English

Examination topic(s)

lectures + Reader

Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations

Written exam consisting of 6 essay questions and 40 multiple choice questions), date: 31 January 2014

Grading scheme

Grade / Grade grading scheme

Position in the curriculum

Teacher training programme English (Secondary School Teacher Accreditation) (SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
- Stage one
  - Subject: Culture Studies (Compulsory subject)
    - Survey of Anglophone Literatures ( 2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
      - 551.216 Survey of Anglophone Literatures (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)

Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
- Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (ab 11W) (Compulsory subject)
  - Module: Literature (ab 11W)
    - Survey of Anglophone Literatures ( 2.0h KU, VO / 4.0 ECTS)
      - 551.216 Survey of Anglophone Literatures (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)

Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
- Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (Compulsory subject)
  - Module: Literature
    - Survey of Anglophone Literatures ( 2.0h KU / 4.0 ECTS)
      - 551.216 Survey of Anglophone Literatures (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
        Absolvierung im 3. Semester empfohlen

Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 05W.1)
- Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (Compulsory subject)
  - Module: Modul Literature Studies
    - Survey of Anglophone Literatures ( 2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
      - 551.216 Survey of Anglophone Literatures (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
        Absolvierung im 4. Semester empfohlen

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Wintersemester 2017/18

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Wintersemester 2016/17

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