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Instructors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Winfried Herget
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.522
Credits:
8,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: AS 522
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
In the early twentieth century Paris became a favorite place for Americans who were dissatisfied with American civilization and sought an escape from the stifling conditions in the U.S. to develop their creativity and experiment with emancipating personal lifestyles. Woody Allen nostalgically portrayed the situation in his movie Midnight in Paris.
The seminar will discuss why authors like Hemingway and Fitzgerald were attracted by Paris where they pursued a particular avant-garde modernism. Likewise we will look at the African American experience in Paris where authors of the Harlem Renaissance encountered African intellectuals and their idea of “negritude”, and after World War II existentialism.
We will start with Allen’s Midnight in Paris, and then read Ernest Hemingway’s Moveable Feast and his novel The Sun Also Rises. Furthermore, we will study diaries, such as Harry Crosby’s Shadows of the Sun, and consider Paris as a publishing center of texts which were unacceptable for American publishing houses. Finally, African American writings will be discussed as examples of Black modernism.
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