Lehrende/r: Dr. Frank Obenland
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: Proseminar I
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: PS I AS
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Inhalt: This course provides a survey of the major genres of colonial American literature. Students will engage such diverse bodies of texts as travel reports by early explorers, historical accounts of the first British settlements in North America, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century personal narratives and poetry, as well as early American drama. The focus in this seminar will be on the formal and aesthetic features of these diverse genres. Furthermore, students will explore how these texts respond to the specific historical circumstances in which they were written.
Empfohlene Literatur: All readings for this class are taken from: The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volume A: Beginnings to 1820. 8th edition (!). Ed. Nina Baym et. al. ISBN: 978-0-393-93476-2.
