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Instructors: Dr. Damien Schlarb
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.313
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 313
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Prior Knowledge
- Proficiency in academic writing in English (Anglo-Saxon essay)
- Proficiency in academic research methods
- Proficiency with methodologies and research questions of the humanities, esp. literary criticism
- Familiarity with the basic themes and concepts in American Cultural Studies (courses I & II)
Active Particiaption Requirements
You must complete all of these in order to receive aktive Teilnahme.
- weekly quizzes/responses (details follow in session 1)
- midterm exam
- paper proposal
Final Grade
- Final argumentative research paper (100% of grade; see the Studienbüro English website for length requirements)
Contents:
American literature of the early nineteenth century goes by many names: classic American literature, romanticism, literature of the American Renaissance. The texts canonized and ostracized under these labels inaugurated a national literature. They consider the ambivalence of the “American experiment,” its liberatory promise of an enlightened democratic republic of laws and its original sin of African slavery. They ponder America’s multivalent origins, from indigenous life to European settler-colonial imaginary, from its biosphere to its social worlds. This course, then, surveys major texts in American romantic literature (1820-1865) and exposeses you to its forms and features. As we engage with these works, we will also hone our ability to articulate critical responses in writing in order to prepare for the final paper.
Note that this is a reading-intensive literature class. You should therefore make time in your schedule to prepare readings that feature unfamiliar and archaic vocabulary.
Recommended reading list:
Mandatory Readings
You must buy The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol. B. 9th ed. New York: Norton, 2017. (You may purchase other editions of the anthology but must then account for variations in pagination etc.)
Digital teaching:
This course will be taught in person on campus. Please make arrangements to come to class regularly. Should the situation invovleing the pandemic require it, we will discuss online teaching arrangements.
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