120033 PS Literature: Introductory Seminar (304) (2009W)

Ramblin' - Being in Motion in US Fiction

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

Diese LVA gilt für das Bachelorstudium nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from Tu 15.09.2009 14:00 to Mo 28.09.2009 14:00
Registration is open from Fr 02.10.2009 14:00 to Th 08.10.2009 14:00
Deregistration possible until Sa 31.10.2009 23:59

Details

max. 24 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Eugen Banauch

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Wednesday 14.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 21.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 28.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 04.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 11.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 18.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 25.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 02.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 09.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 16.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 13.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 20.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
Wednesday 27.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

"I'am a long way from my home"- wanderers, ramblers, gamblers, and hobos have frequently inhabited fictional worlds in US literature. This introductory 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, Mark Twain's Huck Finn, Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Carolyn Cassidy's Off the Road, Guthrie's Bound for Glory, Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues (in English translation)
Poetry and Lyrics by Whitman, Frost, Guthrie, Dylan.

Assessment and permitted materials

class-participation, presentation, term paper (proseminar paper), final written exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Research-based analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction

Examination topics

Interactive Introductory Seminar

Reading list

The complete reading list will be posted here sometime in September: http://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/banauch/

Association in the course directory

Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612

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