2017-18 AM Time Travel: The 'Chronology Paradox' in 19C and 20C Literature

• Time: Thu, 12:00-14:00
• Venue: A14 112
• Course: ###
• Lecturer: Anna Auguscik
• Modul: ang615 Motifs - Themes - Issues (and their Media)

• Course Description:

Please, make sure to purchase and read the following two novels in advance. Your reading of them is prerequisite to the course.

PLEASE NOTE: All primary materials will be made available at the CvO bookshop.

• Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP. There will be a Handapparat in our library.

• Course Requirements

• Requirements for 6 KP: regular attendance and a (oral/)written contribution in the form of either a presentation + written outline (10-12 pp) or seminar paper (15 pp), with based on the topic of the seminar.
• As part of the "Aktive Teilnahme" regulation:

    Die aktive Teilnahme besteht aus folgenden Komponenten
    - regelmäßige Anwesenheit: max. 2 Abwesenheiten und gegebenenfalls Nacharbeit
    - Vor- und Nachbereitung des Seminarstoffs (Expertengruppen, Vorbereitung/Lektüre von Texten) 
    - Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung aus dem Problembereich des Seminars, durch:
      *Übernahme von Ergebnispräsentationen und 
      *(nur falls Seminararbeit angestrebt, verschriftlicht, ansonsten als Teil der Präsentation) 
       Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters (die Zeitangaben verstehen sich als Empfehlungen): 
       Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis 25.April),
       Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis ###), 
       Vorstellung der Fragestellung in der letzten Semestersitzung.

Session 1 Tue, 04 April

• Introduction
• Course syllabus

Session 2 Tue, 11 April

• Historical and Theoretical Contexts

Session 3 Tue, 18 April

• Textual Analysis 1:
• Close Reading:

Session 4 Tue, 25 April

• Textual Analysis 2:
• Close Reading

Session 5 Tue, 02 May

• Textual Analysis 3:
• Close Readings

Session 6 Tue, 09 May

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 7 Tue, 16 May

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 8 Tue, 23 May

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 9 Tue, 30 May

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 10 Tue, 06 June

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 11 Tue, 13 June

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 12 Tue, 20 June

• Class reading:
• Presenters' reading:
• Further reading:

Session 13 Tue, 27 June

• Final Discussion
• evaluation

  [Hand in RPOs until ### at the latest]

Session 14 Tue, 04 July

• discussion of RPOs
• feedback on evaluation

  [Hand in research papers until 28 February]

Materials

Bibliography

Tools

• Handout: Traditions in our discourse about literature
• Handout: Narratology
• Handout: (Non-)literary texts
• Handout: Excerpt