Universität Wien

120016 VO New World Encounters: Empire, Travel, and Alterity in North America 1500-1800 (2007W)

Literature Course 321

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

anrechenbar als K 531, K532 sowie als Vorprüfungsfach K701 nach AHStG-Studienplänen. Im UniStG-Diplomstudienplan für Schwerpunkt-Literaturmodul "American Literature". ECTS: UF Englisch: 3.00

Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 16.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 23.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 30.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 06.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 13.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 20.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 27.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 04.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 11.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 18.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 08.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 15.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 22.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 29.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The encounters of peoples who had never before been in contact with one another had momentous consequences not only for the native inhabitants in North America, but also for the immigrants who would come to settle here, and for the natural environment. This course traces the early clash of cultures in the Americas, spanning the years from Columbus's voyage in 1492 to the publication of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, in 1789.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

This course will look at the writings of some of the early Spanish, French and English travelers to the "New World," examining the process of representation and history: Do the accounts of Christopher Columbus, Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, George Vancouver, John Smith, John Winthrop, William Bradford, William Byrd, Sarah Kemble Knight, and others tell us more about the people and places they encountered or about their own cultures? To what extent were the Europeans in America unwilling or unable to conceptually understand what lay before them?

Examination topics

Lecture

Reading list

Please purchase Lauter, Paul et al, eds., The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol.1 (available at Buchhandlung Facultas) and the class reader which will be available at Copyshop Schwarzspanierstraße. For more information, check also the website: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Astrid.Fellner

Association in the course directory

321, 326, 336, 722, K 531, K532, K701

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