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Lehrende/r: Dr. Damien Schlarb
Veranstaltungsart:
Proseminar
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05.866.122
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: AS 122
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Credit Requirements
- Online Responses
- Short Presentation
- Paper Proposal w. Exposé
- Final Argumentative Research Paper
Expectations—What You Should Already Know
- Proficient command of English (grammar, style)
- Vocabulary for literary analysis (stylistic devices, literary genres, etc.)
- Understanding of the Anglo-Saxon essay format
- Familiarity with research options on campus (library and online resources)
Course Content—What You Will Do
- review analytical reading strategies, critical theories, and compositional strategies
- review socio-historical, philosophical, economical, and religious ideas that underpin the literature of the period
- relate these contexts to critical readings of primary texts
- research and review scholarly criticism on the period
- explore their own thinking on these text through writing
- articulate relevant research questions, based on historical and literary analyses
- conceptualize an original research project that addresses those questions
- compose an original argumentative research essay that answers said questions
- perform critical literary analyses of primary literary texts and secondary criticism, based on pertinent critical theories, historical context, and hermeneutical strategies hypothesize textual meaning, based on textual evidence garnered by applying those strategies to primary texts
Intended Learning Outcomes—What You Will Learn
- name pertinent works and authors of American literary modernism
- identify and name characteristic formal properties and techniques for this period
- identify and name relevant literary themes, stylistic devices, and motifs
- evaluate critically texts based on their treatment of said themes, devices, and motifs
Please note that this is a reading-intensive literary studies course. Make sure that you allot sufficient time in your schedule for reading and preparing the texts and for reviewing analysis- and composition techniques.
Inhalt:
This literary studies course introduces students to early twentieth-century American literature. American literary modernism, as the period between 1914 and 1945 is often called, was a project that tried to come to terms with a broad spectrum of phenomena which occurred on a transnational scale in the West: the changed role of women in society, the economic lavishness of the “roaring 20s” and the subsequent disillusionment with finance capitalism in the Great Depression, the cultural and social effects of urbanization and automoatization, the renewed self-assertion of African American culture, but also the horrors of modern industrialized warfare and the unresolved regional and racial strife that dates back to the Civil War. Authors, poets, and playwrights such as Jon Dos Passos, T.S. Eliot, Nella Larson, William Carlos Williams, Zora Neal Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Susan Glaspel, Wallace Stevens, Eugene O’Neill, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner provide us with literary reactions to these issues. We will be interested in how these phenomena shape the literary forms and movements of the period (for instance minimalism, imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance) and discuss their ideological and political implications. Our readings will include theoretical writings on the project of modernism as well as examples of various literary genres: fiction and non-fiction prose, poetry, and drama.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Required Materials (you must buy this book; older editions are fine, as long as they include the same texts.)
- Levine, Robert, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1914-1945. 9th ed. Vol. D. New York: Norton, 2016.
- Additional readings will be provided on ILIAS. Please be sure to log on at the beginning of the semester.
Recommended Readings (optional readings to prepare for the course)
- Kalaidjian, Walter. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Lewis, Pericles. The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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