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Objectives and competences

The objective of this course is to acquaint students with the basic epistemological, methodological anf functional interactions between literary, literary-theoretical and intercultural dicourses.

Content (Syllabus outline)

• Basic concepts of literary and cultural theory. • Literature and culture as symbolic order. • System-theoretical aspects of interculturality. • Literary systems: intercultural contact. • Literary competence and intercultural communication. • Literary conventions and intercultural competence. • Interculturality and intertextuality. • Literature, interculturality and GFL (German as a foreign language).

Learning and teaching methods

• Lectures, • seminar.

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

On completion of this course the student will be able to • demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts in cultural and literary theory, • recognize and evaluate the role of those processes in context of intercultural discourses, • identify structural and functional aspects of literary systems and critically evaluate their role in intercultural contact, • analyse patterns of intercultural communication using methods of literary theory and cultural history

Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes

communication skills, using information technology (finding information on the internet).

Readings

• Nünning, A. 2004: Literaturwissenschaftliche Theorien, Modelle und Methoden, 4. izdaja, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier. • Hofmann, M. 2006: Interkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft, UTB, Stuttgart. • Nell, W. 2001: Reflexionen und Konstruktionen des Fremden in der europäischen Literatur, Gardez, Remscheid. • Schößler, F. 2006. Literaturwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft, UTB, Stuttgart.

Prerequisits

None.

  • izr. prof. dr. DEJAN KOS

  • Written examination: 50
  • Collaboration in lectures, tutorials and lab work: 50

  • : 15
  • : 75

  • Slovenian, German
  • Slovenian, German