German Literature and Models of Reading
Course code
GRS7201.HT
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Kirjanduse lugemise mudelid
Course title in English
German Literature and Models of Reading
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To form an understanding of models of reading and literary schools, trends and ideas to provide knowledge of the development of German literature and criticism. To introduce students into reading models as cultural techniques as well as contemporary methods of literary criticism and possibilities to interpret literary works through them. To form skill to evaluate new theoretical knowledge independently.
Brief description of the course
What happens when we read texts? Literature, its essence and goals, elements of the study of literature, different methods of approaching the analysis of literature, methods of creating a literary work. Study of literature and its components. Poetics (normative, immanent, descriptive, historical, structural poetics). Model of a literary work. Literature and psychology. Literature and other types of art. Academic schools in German literature science ( historical-cultural schools, psychological trends, historical-comparative study of literature, formal school structuralism, semiotic approaches, post structuralism).
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- knows and reflect the different reading models and methods to approach literature. and the students are able to analyse literature in different ways.
- knows and reflect the different reading models and methods to approach literature. and the students are able to analyse literature in different ways.
Teacher
Dotsent Maris Saagpakk
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