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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.522
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 522
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
This graduate course is especially designed for students enrolled in the Master of Education program and open to all students interested in the richness of American literature. The course surveys the literatures of North America from the colonial period to the present. While we will devote some attention to the literary traditions that preceded British colonization, most of our readings will be of texts written in English between 1620 and the very present. These texts—histories, autobiographies, poems, plays, novels and short stories—illuminate the breadth of literary output in North America. The course seeks to attend the cultural, linguistic, and ethnic diversity represented by the literatures of North America. Besides, we will also study specific cultural contexts of literary production as well as the aesthetic forms and experimentations that go along with it. Engaging literary studies, we will finally consider pedagogical issues and discuss ways how to teach the literatures of North America in today’s EFL classroom.
This course will use the Norton Anthology of American literature. Participants may purchase the ninth edition or use older editions:
The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Shorter Ninth Edition). 2 Volumes. Ed. Robert S. Levine et al. New York: Norton, 2017.
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