| Course title | German Philology - Literary Lecture |
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| Course code | KGN/LP30 |
| Organizational form of instruction | Lecture |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | not specified |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 3 |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
| Course availability | The course is available to visiting students |
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Die literarische Utopie By means of detailed analyses of literary texts and their socio-political conditions in the lecture key phases in the changeable genre of utopia will be demonstrated. The main points are: utopian preliminary stages in antiquity, eschatological/chiliastic forms in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance as the first climax of utopia, the emergence of time utopia in the Enlightenment, utopian possibility thinking in modern times, dystopian doomsday scenarios in the 20th century, and feminist utopias/dystopias of contemporary literature.
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Die literarische Utopie The utopia as a literary genre originated in humanism. It was named after the work Utopia, in which in 1516 Thomas Morus contrasted the chaotic political situation of his time with a fictitious regulatory model, which was, of course, immediately problematized in the dialogical layout of the text. He, thus, determined the narrative basic structure of the (not only) literary utopia, which consists of the interplay of a critical analysis of the present and a design of constructive counter-images of historical reality. This structure has remained constant up to the present, despite all criticism of the utopians' escape from reality and despite all changes of the genre up to the dystopias of the 20th century (Semjatow, Orwell, Huxley). The aim of the lecture is on one hand to demonstrate processes of literary history by means of a functional history of utopia and on the other hand to reveal the experimental character and the anthropologically based possibility thinking of utopian writing. However, one may also wonder how utopia can be depicted in an "exciting" way when the as an ideal presented world no longer needs the commitment of a hero and his actions. So where do utopian novels get their "plot" (in Jurij Lotman's sense)?
Competence in interlacing literature and political science; Literary theory especially genre theory and narratology. |
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The lecture is intended for all students of M.A. or Ph.D. studium.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark, Oral exam
Completion requirements will be specified by individual lecturers. The series of lectures will be completed with an oral or written exam. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019_24) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German for Translators and Interpreters (2017) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): German Philology (2019) | Category: Philological sciences | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |