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Lecturer(s)
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Mengel Ewald, Prof. Dr. phil. habil.
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Course content
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English literature -- Old English and Middle English periods: Latin, Greek, French, Anglo-Saxon sources -- Beowulf -- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- Theater in the Middle Ages American literature -- Precolonial and Colonial Periods: Travel Writings, Captivity Narratives, Puritan Literature -- Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Hendrick Aupaumut, Olaudah Equiano Postcolonial literature -- Postcolonial Anglophone Literatures in Global Perspective: Historical Contexts -- Precolonial and Postcolonial Literature in Africa -- E.g.: Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Participation in classes
- 28 hours per semester
- Term paper
- 32 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 70 hours per semester
- Preparation for examination
- 20 hours per semester
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| identify the origins of selected national literatures |
| identify the origins of selected national literatures |
| describe the most important genres and their emergence in a historical context |
| describe the most important genres and their emergence in a historical context |
| understand the basic concepts of postcolonial thinking |
| understand the basic concepts of postcolonial thinking |
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| interpret basic texts of national literatures |
| interpret basic texts of national literatures |
| relativize the Western view by moving from the center to the periphery |
| relativize the Western view by moving from the center to the periphery |
| look at our world through the eyes of the Other |
| look at our world through the eyes of the Other |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing) |
| Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Skills |
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| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing) |
| Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Analysis of the student's performance |
| Analysis of the student's performance |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
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Recommended literature
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Ashcroft, Bill - Griffiths, Gareth - Tiffin, Helen. Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts. London, 2013.
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Ashcroft, Bill, et al. The Empire Writes Back. Theory and Practice in Postcolonial Literatures. London, 2002.
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Delbanco, Andrew. The Puritan Ordeal. Cambridge, 1989.
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Elliott, Emory. Revolutionary Writers. Oxford, 1982.
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Elliott, Emory. The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature. Cambridge, 2009.
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Grady, Frank, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales. Cambridge, 2020.
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Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. Chichester, 2012.
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Happe, Peter. English Drama before Shakespeare. London, 1999.
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Pulsiano, Phillip - Treharne, Elaine. A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Oxford, 2001.
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Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford, 2004.
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Young, Robert J. C. Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, 2020.
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