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Lehrende/r: Dr. Damien Schlarb
Veranstaltungsart:
Proseminar
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05.866.122
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: AS 122
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be able to…
- name pertinent works of American poetry from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century
- identify and name characteristic formal properties of poetic romanticism and realism/naturalism
- identify and name relevant literary themes, stylistic devices, and motifs
- compare and contrasts texts based on their treatment of said themes, devices, and motifs
In order to reach these goals, students are required to…
- review analytical reading strategies, critical theories, and compositional strategies
- review socio-historical, philosophical, economical, and religious ideas that underpin its poetry (Culture Studies I)
- relate these contexts to critical readings of primary texts
- articulate relevant research questions, based on historical and literary analyses
- conceptualize an original research project that addresses those questions
- perform independent research into primary and secondary sources
- compose an original argumentative research essay that answers said questions
- perform critical literary analyses of primary literary texts and secondary criticism, based on pertinent critical theories, historical context, and hermeneutical strategieshypothesize textual meaning, based on textual evidence garnered by applying those strategies to primary texts
Inhalt:
This proseminar introduces students to nineteenth-century American poetry. In terms of literary periodization, the course focuses on American romanticism as well as realism and naturalism. Readings will cover a timespan from the late eighteenth century to the post-bellum Reconstruction era and will survey the works of poets from various aesthetic schools, classes, regions, religious denominations, and political persuasions (William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emma Lazarus, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, among others). The poems included here touch upon the defining cultural issues for the new American nation: the function and purpose of nature, the promise of a society governed by laws, the meaning and potential of the individual, the changing relevance of religion and the Bible, a shifting social landscape (women’s rights, the abolition of slavery, immigration), as well as the socially and economically transformative dynamism of technology. We will cover a basic body of critical theory relevant to the reading of poetry and review various analytical strategies in our discussions. That being said, the course does not prescribe any one methodological or critical approach to literature beyond the hermeneutic historical approach outlined above. It will be your responsibility to define a research interests and use the class time to develop questions you want to see answered in your final argumentative research paper.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Required Materials
- Spengemann, William, ed. Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. New York: Penguin, 1996. Print.
- Further readings will be provided on ILIAS.
Recommended Materials
- Baldick, Chris (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford UP, 2008. Print.
- Bercovitch, Sacvan (ed.). The Cambridge History of American Literature: Nineteenth-Century Poetry, 1800-1910. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Print.
- Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008. Print.
- Larson, Kerry (ed.). The Cambridge Introduction to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 2011. Print.
- Vendler, Helen Hennessy. The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988. Print.
- Waggoner, Hyatt Howe. American Poets, from the Puritans to the Present. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. Print.
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