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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.522
Credits:
8,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 522
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
In this seminar we will trace the emergence of Goethe's concept of "Weltliteratur" (1827) and its progress in transforming national literatures with regard to its reception and embracement by American writers. We will examine the twofold process of reading and incorporating non-American sources in their works on the one hand, and creating American literature recognized and appreciated outside of the United States on the other. This will include first the presence of Romantic ideas in writers of American Transcendentalism, the reflection of Chinese sources in Benjamin Franklin and Ezra Pound, second the avant-garde movements of the Harlem Renaissance and the Beat poets, the formation of postmodernism and the transnational turn of the 21stcentury.
In preparation please read: David Damrosch, "Goethe Coins a Phrase," in his What Is World Literature?(Princeton UP, 2003), pp. 1-36; Zhang Longxi, "The Changing Concept of World Literature," in his From Comparison to World Literature (SUNY Press, 2015), pp. 169-181; Dieter Lamping, Die Idee der Weltliteratur: Ein Konzept Goethes und seine Karriere (Kröner, 2010), pp. 14-25.
Recommended reading list:
In preparation please read: David Damrosch, "Goethe Coins a Phrase," in his What Is World Literature?(Princeton UP, 2003), pp. 1-36; Zhang Longxi, "The Changing Concept of World Literature," in his From Comparison to World Literature (SUNY Press, 2015), pp. 169-181; Dieter Lamping, Die Idee der Weltliteratur: Ein Konzept Goethes und seine Karriere (Kröner, 2010), pp. 14-25.
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