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

Students must have taken ‘Metropolen der Modernität’, before they can enroll in this course. Enrolling in this course als means that you simultaneously take 'Literature and intermediality'

Taught in

German

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Inge Arteel (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

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

Course Content

The course focuses on developments in modern German language literature of around 1900.

The course presents literature from the period 1880-1920. Literary developments such as naturalism, symbolism, expressionism and dadaism are commented, as is the literature of the "Wiener Moderne". The literary texts are read in their relationship with scientific discourses such as darwinism, psychoanalysis and language philosophy, and societal currents such as "Reformpädagogik" and feminism.

Course material

Course text (Required) : Deutschsprachige Literatur der Jahrhundertwende, I. Arteel, VUB, 2220170002682, 2016
Handbook (Required) : Frühlings Erwachen, Frank Wedekind, Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 7951, Reclam, 9783150079515, 2000
Handbook (Required) : Fräulein Else, Arthur Schnitzler, Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 18155, Reclam, 9783150181553, 2002
Handbook (Required) : Die Verwandlung, Franz Kafka, Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 9900, Reclam, 9783150099001, 2001

Additional info

The students are expected to prepare each week the selected texts on the program and to engage in the discussions. They are given questions in advance, so as to facilitate the preparation and the disussion. Course attendance is therefore necessary.

Each student individually prepares a presentation of min. 20 minutes on a text by choice of the program. The preparation of the presentation is handed in at least 3 days before class. The student incorporates the feedback of the lecturer before giving the presentation in class.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The students:

- can formulate their insights into the literary and cultural developments of Modernity around 1900;

- can analyse literary texts in relation to scientific and societal discourses;

- can give a presentation of 20 minutes of a literary analysis in a logical, insightful and interactive way, in correct German on an advanced level.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 20% of the final mark.
LEC Presentation determines 30% of the final mark.

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

oral evaluation with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Note: oral exam that looks at critical insight into the period and texts at stake, with preparation time, without course material

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

participation with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Note: permanent evaluation of the active participation during class

Within the LEC Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:

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

Note: presentation of 20 minutes of the analysis of a literary text from the course program

Additional info regarding evaluation

The weekly preparation and participation are considered as formative evaluation.

The oral presentation is considered as formative and summative evaluation.

The exam component "oral presentation" 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