Lehrende/r: Dr. Frank Obenland
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 6,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: AS 122
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: It is recommended that you have successfully completed an introductory class on American Studies (B.A. students) and/or an introductory lecture to literary studies (B.Ed. students) before you attend this class. All students will be evaluated according to a term paper at the end of the semester (Modulprüfung).
Inhalt: This course provides a survey of the major genres of early American literature from the 17th to the 19th century. Students will be introduced to the analysis of rhetorical texts, early modern poetry, dramatic texts as well as 19th-century prose fiction. In the course of the semester, we will read and discuss Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography as well as 19th century short stories by Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. We will conclude with a discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s historical romance The Scarlet Letter. The focus in this seminar will be on a close readings of the aesthetic and formal features of these texts as well as a contextualization of these literary examples in light of the specific historical circumstances in which they were written.
Empfohlene Literatur: Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Francke, 2011. Franklin, Benjamin. The Autobiography. Bantam Classics, 2008. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Penguin Classics, 2016. Additional texts will be made available at the beginning of the semester.
