Universität Wien

123426 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA American/North American Lit./Studies (2015W)

Literary Massachusetts

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

An/Abmeldung

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

Details

max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 15.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 22.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 29.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 05.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 12.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 19.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 26.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 03.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 10.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 17.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 07.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 14.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 21.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Donnerstag 28.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Nonconformism, Individualism, Transcendentalism . . . Boston, Harvard, Salem, Concord:
isms and places that are pivotal in U.S. history and cultural geography. Massachusetts, the paradigmatic "New England" colony (1620ff.) and U.S. state (since 1788), where "Puritans" planned their "City upon a Hill", where the American War of Independence started (with a farmer's shot that was "heard round the world"), where literature flourished in the first half of the 19th century into what became known as the "American Renaissance".
In the first weeks of this course we will discuss early "non-fictional" (?) texts (or text excerpts) by William Bradford, John Winthrop, and Cotton Mather - setting the stage for our analyses of "Literary Massachusetts" highlights: representative poems by Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson and Robert Lowell, essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller, tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne as well as his Boston romance The Scarlet Letter, and Arthur Miller's witch-hunt drama The Crucible.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

- academic term paper
- presentation of research project
- class participation
- reading assignments

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The seminar will concentrate on the students' theoretical and practical analysis of texts from four centuries in a variety of formats; while the focus is on literary criticism (and the production of an academic essay), Cultural Studies aspects will also be included.

Prüfungsstoff

- student presentations
- individual research
- interactive discussions in class

Literatur

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
all other texts (or text excerpts) will be posted on Moodle

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: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33