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Lecture: 10-76-1-Basismodul A-01 Introduction to English Literatures Part I - Details

Lecture: 10-76-1-Basismodul A-01 Introduction to English Literatures Part I - Details

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Course name Lecture: 10-76-1-Basismodul A-01 Introduction to English Literatures Part I
Subtitle
Course number 10-76-1-Basismodul A-01
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Current number of participants 122
expected number of participants 100
Home institute Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type Lecture in category Teaching
Next date Wednesday, 17.12.2025 14:15 - 15:45, Room: GW2 B1400 NUR Mi. - So.
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja
ECTS points 3

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Course description:
This lecture provides an introduction to the methods, concepts, and tools students of literatures in English are advised to use when approaching literary texts. These will help them to obtain a fuller understanding of texts and to express themselves clearly and competently when discussing them. Furthermore, we will look at literature as a particular form of communication, i.e., we will consider the specificity of literary texts, and its various genres: drama, narrative fiction, poetry. We will also talk about different approaches to literature, i.e., literary theory.

Course Aims: This lecture aims to familiarise students with central concepts and tools for the analysis of literary texts of various genres. Students will obtain clear ideas of approaches to literature, methodologies, terminology, and strategies of literary interpretation.

Reading: Please buy and read William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet (c. 1601) and Michael Meyer's “English and American Literatures” (utb basics, 4th ed.), both of which have been ordered by the university bookshop deinunibuch (Universitäts-Boulevard on campus).
A list of poems, short stories, and extracts from longer works will be made available on Stud.IP.

!!! Please note that both Hamlet and all of the material on Stud.IP is compulsory reading for the exam.

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