Concepts and Interpretations [THU]

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Beschreibung

This BIWEEKLY (i.e., once every two weeks) seminar seeks to introduce students to some of the salient developments in modern Anglo-American literary criticism, by taking up introductory texts that present the overviews of specific theoretical approaches and then by attempting to read literary texts with the aid of these conceptions. This means that each course session will be based on our readings of the text allotted for it.
This course is part of the ANG-B1/ANG-B-LK module, to be taken by bachelor’s students in their second semester in combination with the lecture course conducted by me on “English and American Literatures and Cultures: A Historical Survey” on Thursdays, between 10:30 and 12:00. Your performance in both the courses will be assessed via a combined exam, scheduled on Thursday, 24.07.2025.
As part of your assigned work in this seminar, all course participants need to carefully read through the reading/text allotted for a session and prepare their responses to guiding questions accompanying the readings. We will discuss your answers in the biweekly sessions.
Please keep in mind that I will not provide any prepared or finalized answers to the questions. You will need to take notes, draft your own answers, and reach your own conclusions on the basis of our discussions in our sessions.
Please check Stud.IP course pages regularly for updates, announcements, and changes.

Studienbereiche

• Anglistik; Englisch > Kulturwissenschaft > Bachelor
• Language and Literary Studies
• Anglistik; Englisch > Literaturwissenschaft > Bachelor