Lehrende/r: Dr. Frank Obenland
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar/Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: AS 123
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: This is an intermediate class in American literary studies. It is recommended that students have attended at least one (pro)seminar in American literary studies before join this class. It is expected that students are familiar with the vocabulary necessary to analyze and describe narrative, dramatic, and poetic texts.
Inhalt: This course provides a survey of the major genres of early American literature from the 17th to the 19th century. Students will be introduced to the analysis of rhetorical texts, early modern poetry, as well as 19th-century prose fiction. In the course of the semester, students will explore the diversity of early American literature. In particular, we will explore how literary texts from this era reflect the intercultural contact between white European settlers and Native Americans. We will conclude with a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s historical romance The Scarlet Letter. The focus in this seminar will be on close readings of the aesthetic and formal features of these texts as well as a contextualization of these literary examples in light of the specific historical circumstances in which they were written.
Empfohlene Literatur: Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Penguin Classics, 2016. Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Francke, 2011. Additional texts and handouts will be made available on ILIAS.
Digitale Lehre: Please note that this course will be taught exclusively through the online platform ILIAS. In this asynchronous course, we will work with brief introductions to the topics, study guides and assignments on primary texts, occasional online discussion forums, and links to videos and other online material.
