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Lehrende/r: Dr. Frank Obenland
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
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05.866.313
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: AS 313
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
It is strongly recommended that students have taken the following classes before signing up:
· at least one Proseminar in (American) literary studies
· Written English I
· Cultural Studies I – American Studies
Anwesenheitspflicht:
While attendance is not mandatory, it is expected that students regularly attend and participate in class meetings.
Inhalt:
In this seminar students will explore key texts from the literary movements of American realism and naturalism between 1865 and the turn of the century. We will explore seminal narrative strategies that characterize the works of American "realists." In addition to discussing realism as a literary style and movement, we will investigate the cultural background to various strands of American literary realism. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of how American authors began to embrace literary naturalism in the last decade of the 19th century.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Texts and Readings:
Please purchase a copy of the following editions before the beginning of the semester:
William Dean Howells. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Penguin Classics, 1986.
Charles W. Chesnutt. The Marrow of Tradition. Edited by Werner Sollors. Norton Critical Editions. Norton, 2012.
Kate Chopin. The Awakening. Edited by Margo Culley. Norton Critical Editions, Norton, 2017.
Recommended Handbooks:
Barrish, Phillip J. The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Fluck, Winfried. “Realismus, Naturalismus, Vormoderne (1865–1910).” Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte, edited by Hubert Zapf. Metzler, 2010, 153–215.
Lamb, Robert Paul and G.R. Thompson, editors. A Companion to American Fiction 1865–1914. Blackwell, 2005.
Newlin, Keith. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism. Oxford UP, 2019.
Pizer, Donald, editor. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge UP, 1995.
Additional texts and readings will be made available at the beginning of the semester through JGU-LMS.
Zusätzliche Informationen:
This course starts in week 2.
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