Course: Selected Issues/Problems of Literary Scholarship

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Course title Selected Issues/Problems of Literary Scholarship
Course code KGER/LIVE
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 0
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cornejo Renata, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Weinberg Manfred, prof. Dr.
Course content
Examples of possible themes/topics: " Intercultural literary science (scholarship) (intercultural literature, intercultural language, intercultural translation) " Cultural science and its contribution for literary theory (Spatial Turn, Emotional Turn) " Postmodernism in the context of literature in the German language and the theoretical discourse " Intermediality and intertextuality as a tool of interpretation of literary texts " Heimatdiscourse and its development in German, Austrian and Swiss literature " Postcolonial theory and Hybridity in literature (Bhabha) National, post-national and transnational issues (national conflicts, co-habitation of Czech and German inhabitants in literary and journalistic texts)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The main goal is to extend the doctoral student´s knowledge of current literary theoretical discourses, to mediate his/her insight in them in much wider (even interdisciplinary) relations and check his/her ability to apply them to selected texts of literature in the German language. These selection of theoretical and literary texts takes into account the orientation of the dissertation project and the current offer of lectures by visiting professors. The credit is granted on the basis of the submitted examination paper.
The Doctoral student has a deep knowledge of the selected literary theory, is well versed in professional literature and current theoretical discourse, can explain it more closely and use its potential for the analysis of a literary work.
Prerequisites
selected chapters from literary science

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Consultations and regular study of relevant literature based on the selection of the student´s choice of themes by the authorized teacher.
Recommended literature
  • Arnold, L./ Detering, H. (Hg.). Grundzüge der Literaturwissenschaft. München, 1996.
  • Greif, E./Schobesberger E. Einführung in die Feministische Rechtswissenschaft. Linec, 2009.
  • HOFMANN, Michael. Interkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft. Eine Einführung. Paderborn, 2006. ISBN 978-3-8252-2839-2.
  • Jochen Vogt. Regeln und Probleme des Textverstehens: Hermeneutik. In: Ders.: Einladung zur Literaturwissenschaft. München, 2002.
  • Mecklenburg, N. Das Mädchen aus der Fremde. Germanistik als interkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft. München, 2008. ISBN 0000.
  • SCHMID, U. Literaturtheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart, 2010.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): German Literature (A18) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -