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Lehrende/r: Dr. Damien Schlarb
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
05.866.313
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: AS 313
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Prerequisits
- proficiency in academic paper writing and research
- MLA style
- basic knowledge of literary/cultural criticism techniques
Active Participation
- regular attendance (no more than 2 missed classes)
- weekly online responses
- oral (group) presentations
- paper proposal
Final Grade
- academic argumentative research paper
Inhalt:
This course explores the writings of Herman Melville, one of the central authors of the so-called American Renaissance (ca. 1830-1865). We will explore Melville’s writing in the context of this literary period by first, considering critically scholarly conceptualizations of the period. Secondly, we will survey other voices in nineteenth-century classical American literature, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, alongside Melville, in order to highlight the promise and limits of his literary project.
Please note that this is a reading intensive literature class. Please plan your schedule accordingly.
Mandatory Readings (complete list will be provided first class session; please get the editions specified here)
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. Ed. Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2001. Print.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Selected Recommended Materials
Baym, Nina. Novels, Readers, and Reviews: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1984. Print.
Buell, Lawrence. New England Literary Culture: From Revolution Through Renaissance. Cambridge UP, 1986. Print.
Chai, Leon. Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990. Print.
Dillingham, William B. An Artist in the Rigging: The Early Work of Herman Melville. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1972. Print.
Dillingham, William B. Melville’s Later Novels. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1986. Print.
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. Oxford UP, 1964. Print.
Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. New York: Oxford UP, 1941. Print.
Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1989. Print.
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