123425 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA American/North American Lit./Studies (2017W)

People in motion - Wanderers, ramblers and gamblers in North American Fiction

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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An/Abmeldung

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

Anmeldung von Mo 11.09.2017 00:00 bis Do 21.09.2017 23:59
Abmeldung bis Di 31.10.2017 23:59

Details

max. 18 Teilnehmer*innen

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Eugen Banauch

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Donnerstag 12.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 19.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 09.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 16.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 23.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 30.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 07.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 14.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 11.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 18.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Donnerstag 25.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

“I’m a long way from my home”- wanderers, ramblers, gamblers, and hobos have frequently inhabited fictional worlds in US literature. This seminar is designed to look at texts that negotiate being on the road (or on a freight train, or raft down the Mississippi for that matter) as expressions of the continuous state of becoming and the fluidity of subject positions within and as constructions of America. We will look at the following texts (some in full, some in excerpts) which are all are taken from the North American context of the 19th and 20th century:
Thoreau’s “Walking”, Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road”, Mark Twain’s Huck Finn, Frederick J. Turner’s “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, Robert Frost, “The Road not Taken”, Woodie Guthrie’s Bound for Glory, Bob Dylan’s “Last Thoughts on Woodie Guthrie”, Walker Percy’s The Last Gentleman, Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Carolyn Cassidy’s Off the Road, Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues (in English translation).

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

- term paper
- presentation
- participation in class

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The submission of a term paper and the presentation are minimum requirements.
Attendance is mandatory, the third absence (of a 90 minute unit) will result in a negative grade.

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Buy the following texts from Facultas, Hof 1 Altes AKH:
Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Jack Kerouac. On the Road.
Jaques Poulin. Volkswagen Blues.
Buy these three texts at Facultas AAKH, as we need to use the same editions. If you decide to work on Bound for Glory, The Last Gentleman or Off the Road for your oral and written paper, you should also buy the respective text at Facultas.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, MA 844;
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-322, BA09.2, 10.2, MA5, MA6, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0406

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22