Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: Grad. Sem. 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: A course reader will be available at the beginning of the term.
Inhalt: This graduate seminar discusses major literary, cultural, and aesthetic developments of the transatlantic Romantic era. It offers a range of representative texts by British, North American, and European writers. The course will not only consists of thematic groupings that introduce students into major concepts of Romanticism (nature, sensibility, spirituality, history, etc.), but it will also focus on Romantic criticism and theory from Schlegel to Poe as well as on some of the movement’s eighteenth-century precursors. The goal is to familiarize students with the major literary and aesthetic debates of the transatlantic Romantic era, and, in doing so, lead to a greater understanding of Romantic prose and poetry which emerges out of this transatlantic literary movement. We will also engage current critical studies to appreciate reappraisals of Romanticism in Anglo-American and European literary criticism.
Empfohlene Literatur: Please purchase the following books: Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Norton Critical Editions) Henry D. Thoreau, Walden and other Writings (Modern Library Classics)
