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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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Trans-/interculturality, e.g., Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Zadie Smith (Post-) postmodernism Postcolonial literature, e.g., J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace Queer Literatures Ecological turn, e.g., Helon Habila, Zakes Mda Literary awards and their social implications, e.g., Damon Galgut, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Douglas Stuart
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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 global movements and trends in Anglophone literatures from the last decades to the present |
| identify global movements and trends in Anglophone literatures from the last decades to the present |
| know the selected texts |
| know the selected texts |
| describe the position of English and American literature among other Anglophone literatures |
| describe the position of English and American literature among other Anglophone literatures |
| Skills |
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| place selected works in the context of Anglophone literature |
| place selected works in the context of Anglophone literature |
| analyze works of contemporary literature with respect to contemporary trends |
| analyze works of contemporary literature with respect to contemporary trends |
| 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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Acheson, James - Ross, Sarah (eds.). The Contemporary British Novel. Edinburgh, 2005.
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Bennett, Milton J. Basic Concepts of Intercultural Communication. Boston, 1998.
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Buell, Lawrence. Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond. Cambridge, 2003.
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Carson, Allen - Lintott, Sheila (eds.). Nature, Aesthetics and Environmentalism: From Beauty to Duty. New York, 2008.
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Dix, Andrew, et al. The Contemporary American Novel in Context. London, 2011.
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Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. London, 1988.
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Mengel, Ewald - Borzaga, Michela (eds.). Trauma. Memory, and Narrative in South Africa. Amsterdam, 2012.
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Munro, Brenna M. South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom. Minneapolis, 2012.
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Poplawski, Paul (ed.). English Literature in Context. Cambridge, 2017.
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Stockton, Will. An Introduction to Queer Literary Studies: Reading Queerly. London, 2022.
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