|
Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung; Prof. Dr. Manfred Siebald
Veranstaltungsart:
Vorlesung
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
Am.Literature I
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
- | -
Anmeldegruppe: Lecture American Studies 125
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
This is the same lecture as 05.866.124- if you need to register for both 124 AND 125, PLEASE CHOOSE DIFFERENT LECTURES!
Inhalt:
This lecture course will cover the history of American fiction from the eighteenth century to the present and examine the origins and developments of the various long and short subgenres. It will look at the initial indebtedness of American literature to European models (Brown, Irving) and trace the emergence of cultural emancipation in the American Renaissance (Hawthorne, Melville). Further focuses will be the anti-slavery novel and the short stories of the Local Color Movement, Realism (Howells, James), Naturalism (Crane, Norris), the philosophical and formal innovations of Modernism (Faulkner, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Hemingway), novels around WW II and the Beat Movement (Mailer, Heller, Kerouac), regional treatments of rural and urban life in the South and the Northeast (F. O'Connor, Percy, Updike, Cheever), the ethnic turn toward, for example, Jewish-American (Bellow, Malamud, Roth), Native American (Erdrich), African-American (Walker, Morrison), and Asian-American fiction (Tan, Kingston), and the impact of Postmodernism as well as of traumatic events like 9/11 on American fiction (Barth, Auster, DeLillo, Foer).
|
