Universität Wien

120132 AR Literature (Interactive Course) - American/North American Lit./Studies: Satire in North America (2008W)

Modes and Models

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Diese LVA gilt für das Masterstudium Anglophone Literatures and Cultures nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 30 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Mittwoch 15.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 22.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 29.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 05.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 12.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 19.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 26.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 03.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 10.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 17.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 07.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 14.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 21.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Mittwoch 28.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this interactive course variants of this very flexible literary form, which has a long history in Anglophone cultures and in North America in particular, will be studied and several of its models and modes will be illustrated. The affinity of satire to light-hearted humor but also to laughter which exposes incongruities or serious flaws will be dealt with and outright moral exhortation provoked in the satires by the awareness of folly and social or moral evil will be touched upon. This will become apparent in the discussion of a number of texts from North America composed primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Among the texts to be studied are satires from colonial America (for instance, Ebenezer Cooke, The Sotweed Factor, or Joel Barlow's mock-heroic The Hasty Pudding) and social criticism from the early Federal period couched in the satiric mode (Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry, selections). Some attention will be paid to the humor of the Old Southwest and regional variants (e.g. Thomas Chandler Haliburton's tales concerning Sam Slick) and its continuation in early tall tales by Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain. Excerpts from travel books will illustrate the perennial appeal of travelogues ridiculing foreign manners and institutions (for instance, from Clemens, The Innocents Abroad) and the suitability of travel in space and time for the satiric representation of a wide range of human types (in Herman Melville, Confidence Man and Clemens' A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

oral presentation and submission of a short essay on the topic chosen or assigned, regular attendance, active participation in class

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

introducing students to different models of humor and satire in North American literature

Prüfungsstoff

interactive class, presentations and discussions

Literatur

The participants are expected to purchase the Reader and two novels: Herman Melville, The Confidence Man (e.g. Penguin Classics, 1991) and Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court (e.g. Penguin Classics, 2001) (Book stores on campus will be informed of the need of participants to purchase paperback editions of these novels)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

3041, 3042, 325, 326, 328, 336, 338, 722, 323, 324

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22