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Instructors: Dr. Tim Lanzendörfer
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Sem:Am.Literature1
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 35
Registration group: S I AS
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
This seminar will put students in touch with seminal texts of American Realism and Naturalism, from 1860 to 1910. We will investigate the philosophical foundations of both literary movements, seek to place them in a continuum of literary eras, and read and discuss central works of both. At the end of the semester, students will be able to identify central aspects of both eras as well to read and interpret literary texts from those eras with an eye to the philosophical, political, social, and literary conditions under which they were produced.
We will read three novels:
Howells, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 1982.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
t.b.a.
and an assortment of short fiction and secondary literature, to be provided on ILIAS. Please obtain the editions of the novels mentioned above, and no other.
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