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Institut für Anglistik Institut für Anglistik

Ass.-Prof. Susanne Pichler Ass.-Prof. Susanne Pichler

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Introduction to British and Postcolonial Literary Studies

VO 2

2,5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

The aim of this lecture course is to familiarize students with key theoretical, critical and methodological concepts of British and postcolonial literary studies.

Introduction to British and Postcolonial Literary Studies aims at introducing you to the wide field of English and Postcolonial Literatures. The lecture course will discuss issues of literary theory, methods of criticism, and literary genres. It will make you familiar with the basic tools of as well as critical concepts and major issues in literary scholarship, - specifically in postcolonial literary theory and criticism -, that will enable you to analyse, compare and contextualise a variety of text types from a wide range of different historical and cultural sites. The course offers detailed discussion of many internationally renowned African, Australian, Canadian, Caribbean, Indian, Irish and British authors, including Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, James Joyce, Derek Walcott, Caryl Phillips, Andrea Levy, William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, and many more.

lecture, group discussions

written

Döring, Tobias. Postcolonial Literatures in English. UNI-WISSEN Anglistik/Amerikanistik. Stuttgart: Klett, 2008. McLeod, John. Beginning Postcolonialism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2000. Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. UTB basics. Tübingen: A. Francke, 2004. Nünning Vera, and Ansgar Nünning. An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature. UNI-WISSEN Anglistik/Amerikanistik. Stuttgart: Klett, 2004. Peck, John, and Martin Coyle. Literary Terms and Criticism. 3rd ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Anmeldevoraussetzung/en: positive Beurteilung des Pflichtmoduls 3 Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): VO 1 Foundation Literature I + VO 1 Foundation Literature II Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): VO 1 Foundation Literature I + Foundation Literature II
Beginn: 09. März 2010