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• Modul: ang613, pb113, pb114
• Lecturer: Anna Auguscik

• Course:
• Time: Thursday 12-14h
• Venue:

• Course Description:

Please, buy and read the following novels, novellas & short stories:

• Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water, 1994
• Bruce Meyer, ed. Clif-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017.

[*Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves, 2017] [*Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds, 2021]

• Jaspreet Singh, Face, 2022

PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to order (and, ideally, immerse yourself in the reading of) the novels. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP.

• 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), based on the topic of the seminar.
• As part of the "Aktive Teilnahme" regulation:

    Die aktive Teilnahme besteht aus folgenden Komponenten
    - regelmäßige Anwesenheit: max. 3 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 (Gruppenarbeit) und 
      *Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters: 
       Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis letzte Sitzung vor Weihnachten),
       Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis 24. Jan), 
       Vorstellung der Fragestellung (letzte Semestersitzung).

Session 1: 20 October

Session 2: 27 October

Session 3: 3 November

Session 4: 10 November

Session 5: 17 November

Session 6: 24 November

Session 7: 1 December

Session 8: 8 December

Session 9: 15 December

Session 10: 6 January

Session 11: 12 January

Session 12: 19 January

Session 13: 26 January

• wrapping up: reflection and final discussion
• how to write a research paper: Handout Style Sheet for Literary and Cultural Studies
• evaluation

Session 14: 02 February

• discussion of research papers
• feedback on evaluation

  [Hand in research papers until 15 March 2023]

Tools

• Handout Narratology
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Culture and Representation
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Discourse
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Identity
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Media
• Handout Traditions in our discourse about literature
• Handout (Non-)literary texts
• Handout Excerpt
• Handout Style Sheet for Literary and Cultural Studies

Primary Reading

• see above

Further Reading

Links