Literatur der Moderne

3 ECTS credits
75 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1020994BER for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Possible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Om Literatur der Moderne te kunnen opnemen, moet je geslaagd zijn voor Literatur und Gegenwart, of dit vak tenminste opnieuw registreren. Geef steeds voorrang aan vakken uit de laagste fase van je opleiding. Als je een verkort programma volgt, kan je dit vak zo opnemen.

Taught in

German

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Inge Arteel (course titular)
Mathias Meert

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
35 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

This course focuses on the historical developments in the modern times of the long 19th century, taking the genre of the novella (short story) as its point of departure. Attention is paid to the evolution of the novella as a genre during that period, and to the interaction of that genre with the tension between revolution and restauration that especially in the German and Austrian regions has characterised the 19th century.

Course material

Handbook (Required) : Florentinische Nächte, Heinrich Heine, Reclam UB Nr. 18974, 9783150189740, 2012
Digital course material (Required) : additional texts and handouts by the teacher, I. Arteel, Kopieën van de lesgever
Digital course material (Required) : Das Erdbeben zu Chili, Heinrich von Kleist, Kopieën van de lesgever
Handbook (Required) : Lenz, Studienausgabe, Georg Büchner, Reclam UB Nr. 19176, 9783150191767, 2016
Handbook (Required) : Die Judenbuche, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Reclam UB Nr.1858, 9783150018583, 1992
Digital course material (Required) : Granit, Adalbert Stifter, Kopieën van de lesgever
Digital course material (Required) : Krambambuli, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Kopieën van de lesgever
Handbook (Required) : Der Tod in Venedig, Thomas Mann, Fischer Taschenbücher Bd. 11266, 9783596112661, 1992
Course text (Required) : Vormärz und Biedermeier, Die novelle im 19. und frühen 20. jahrhundert, I. Arteel, VUB, 2220170005409, 2018

Additional info

Each week the students get some concrete questions in advance for the next session. They prepare these questions so as to facilitatie interaction. Attendance of the lessons is therefore obligatory.

The students write a short essay of at least 1500 words on one of the discussed novellas, starting from a concrete research question, and with references to at least one scientific source in print from the VUB library and to at least one scientific website. They submit this paper in the second last week and get individual feedback in the last week of the term, with the chance to rework the essay in case they failed.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The students:

- can understand the developments of the genre of the novella in the 19th century and early 20th centuries.

- can find and use secondary material.

- can use scientific instruments and terminology.

- can write a short paper using scientific sources.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Written Exam determines 30% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 40% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

oral exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

Note: Oral exam that measures critical insight into the development of the discussed period, with preparation time, without tools.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

short paper with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

Note: short paper on one of the novellas of the course

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

participation with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 40% of the final mark.

Note: continuous evaluation of the active participation during the lectures.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The weekly preparation and participation is considered as formative evaluation.

The writing of the paper is considered both as formative and summative evaluation.

The exam component "short paper" cannot be transferred to the second exam period. The results for this exam component are transferred to the second exam period.

The students have to pass all exam categories in order to pass the exam as a whole.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context