551.216 (13W) Survey of Anglophone Literatures
Overview
- Lecturer
- Course title german Survey of Anglophone Literatures
- Type Lecture
- Hours per Week 2.0
- ECTS credits 4.0
- Registrations 81
- Organisational unit
- 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.
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Course Information
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 READERConditions of admission
zilchCourse 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.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, 2013Other materials
Course READERLiterature
Course reader (available at the ÖH Skriptenreferat from mid-October) REQUIRED READING: William Shakespeare. King Lear Recommended: The Pelican History of England, vols. 5-9Examination 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.
Examination topic(s)
lectures + ReaderAssessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations
Written exam consisting of 6 essay questions and 40 multiple choice questions), date: 31 January 2014Grading scheme
Grade / Grade grading schemePosition in the curriculum
- Teacher training programme English (Secondary School Teacher Accreditation)
(SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
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Stage one
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Subject: Culture Studies
(Compulsory subject)
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Survey of Anglophone Literatures (
2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
- 551.216 Survey of Anglophone Literatures (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
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Survey of Anglophone Literatures (
2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Culture Studies
(Compulsory subject)
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Stage one
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
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Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (ab 11W)
(Compulsory subject)
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Module: Literature (ab 11W)
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Survey of Anglophone Literatures (
2.0h KU, VO / 4.0 ECTS)
- 551.216 Survey of Anglophone Literatures (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
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Survey of Anglophone Literatures (
2.0h KU, VO / 4.0 ECTS)
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Module: Literature (ab 11W)
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Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium (ab 11W)
(Compulsory subject)
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
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Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium
(Compulsory subject)
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Module: Literature
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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
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Survey of Anglophone Literatures (
2.0h KU / 4.0 ECTS)
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Module: Literature
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Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium
(Compulsory subject)
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 05W.1)
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Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium
(Compulsory subject)
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Module: Modul Literature Studies
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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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Survey of Anglophone Literatures (
2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
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Module: Modul Literature Studies
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Subject: Fachliches Aufbaustudium
(Compulsory subject)
Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts
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Wintersemester 2023/24
- 552.270 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2022/23
- 552.270 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2021/22
- 552.270 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2020/21
- 552.270 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2019/20
- 552.270 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2018/19
- 552.270 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2017/18
- 552.270 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2016/17
- 552.270 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2015/16
- 552.270 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2015
- 551.217 VO Survey of Anglophone Literatures b (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2013
- 551.216 KU Survey of Anglophone Literatures (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)