Module 23-LIT-M-BM2 Basic module 2: Comparative Literature

Building on the literary-historical and humanities-systematic competences acquired in the Bachelor's degree programme, students will have a comprehensive knowledge of the perspectives and methods of comparative literature after completing the basic module 2. They acquire extensive knowledge of European literary history in a global context and in transnational comparison. Students learn to recognise national variations and transnational continua and to contextualise them historically. This competence is practised and deepened using examples. After completing the module, students will be able to recognise and critically discuss the individual character and mutual influence of European cultures. This can be applied in particular in the seminar discussions and in the coursework. The subject-specific skills form the methodological and comparative literary-theoretical basis for the Master's degree programme and also include interdisciplinary skills in the written presentation of scientific facts such as a high level of textual competence and experience with transcultural phenomena. As part of the Lektürepaket, students apply the comparative and literary-historical competences developed in the seminar on text material that they investigate independently. The profound text knowledge thus acquired feeds into the written exam. Passing the module examination requires textual, developmental and research skills.

The basic module 2 builds on the knowledge of literary, cultural and intellectual history acquired in the B.A. and introduces students to the academic contexts of comparative literature. The subject of the module is the comparative perspective, which serves the comparative classification of literary and cultural-historical contexts and an awareness of medial and artistic differences and interrelationships. The module focusses on research on European literatures from a comparative perspective, i.e. the individual philological or cultural and problem-historical focal points are further interlinked and productively and independently related to each other. In the courses, the history of the reception of works and authors, the functional history of literature using specific examples as well as questions of literary historiography, international canon formation, the emergence of different schools and currents in the various literatures and the comparison of the arts and media are examined.
Both perspectives and their combination represent a special feature of the subject-specific competence within the framework of the Master's degree programme in Literary Studies, which thus builds on the knowledge and skills in the history of literature, culture, genre and aesthetics taught in the BA (in particular basic modules 1, 2, 3 and profile module 1 of the BA degree programme).

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