Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung; Prof. Dr. Manfred Siebald
Veranstaltungsart: Vorlesung
Anzeige im Stundenplan: Lec.AmericanStudies1
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 400
Anmeldegruppe: Lecture American Studies I
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Inhalt: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder . . . ." What Joseph Campbell has called the "monomyth" of all civilizations can be found in virtually all periods of United States history and culture. For what reasons and to what effects has it surfaced? This lecture tries to present political, psychological and cultural explanations for the emergence and reemergence of a phenomenon that has assumed such divergent guises as famous presidents, folk heroes, literary characters, Western gunslingers, exemplary women, and cartoon figures. Our examples will cover roughly two centuries of books, dramas, poems, songs, comic strips, movies, television series, and other media, and thus follow Americans' quest for exceptionalism in the midst of egalitarianism and for redemption in the face of threatening forces from without and within.
Empfohlene Literatur: Campbell, Joseph. /The Hero with a Thousand Faces/. 1949. London: Fontana Press, 1993.
