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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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- Time as duration of space - Matter and Spiritual Space - Psyche and sexuality - The new religiosity - Communication - Iconography of technology - Acceleration and time signature - Migration and mobility - Space of power - Nationalization of space - Hecticity of urban space - Region, regionality and globalityape
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Participation in classes
- 28 hours per semester
- Term paper
- 22 hours per semester
- Preparation for course credit
- 70 hours per semester
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| characterise literary modernism on the basis of reading selected works |
| characterise literary modernism on the basis of reading selected works |
| explain the cultural and historical context of literary modernism |
| explain the cultural and historical context of literary modernism |
| assess the significance of the selected works within the overall work of the authors concerned |
| assess the significance of the selected works within the overall work of the authors concerned |
| evaluate the concepts of space and time in modernist literature |
| evaluate the concepts of space and time in modernist literature |
| describe the differences between approaches to modernity in different national literatures |
| describe the differences between approaches to modernity in different national literatures |
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| analyze selected works |
| analyze selected works |
| apply standard interpretive theories and models (hermeneutics, structuralism, positivism, etc.) |
| apply standard interpretive theories and models (hermeneutics, structuralism, positivism, etc.) |
| identify features of modernism in works |
| identify features of modernism in works |
| evaluate the significance of the works within world literature |
| evaluate the significance of the works within world literature |
| suggest further methods for contextualising the works |
| suggest further methods for contextualising the works |
| teaching methods |
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| Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book) |
| Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book) |
| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Analysis of a work of art |
| Analysis of a work of art |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Skills |
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| Text analysis |
| Text analysis |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming) |
| Analysis of a work of art |
| Analysis of a work of art |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Analysis of seminar paper |
| Analysis of seminar paper |
| Analysis of the student's performance |
| Analysis of the student's performance |
| Grade (Using a grade system) |
| Grade (Using a grade system) |
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Recommended literature
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Armstrong, Tim. Modernism: A Cultural History. Cambridge, 2005.
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Brooker, Peter - Thacker, Andrew (eds.). Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces. London, 2005.
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Diepeveen, Leonard. The Difficulties of Modernism. New York, 2003.
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Duffy, Enda. The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. Durham, 2009.
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Gay, Peter. Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond. New York, 2008.
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Kaschuba, Wolfgang. Überwindung der Distanz. Zeit und Raum in der europäischen Moderne. Frankfurt am Main, 2004.
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Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space, 1880?1918. Cambridge, 2003.
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Levenson, Michael. Modernism. New Haven, CT, 2011.
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Micale, Mark (ed.). The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880?1940. Stanford, 2004.
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Rasula, Jed. History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism. New York, 2016.
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Schleifer, Ronald. Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880?1930. Cambridge, 2001.
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