120114 VO Literatures in English (2010S)
"20th-Century Authors from the American South"
Labels
Diese LVA gilt für die Masterstudien Englisch nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).
Details
Language: English
Examination dates
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Wednesday
10.03.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
17.03.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
24.03.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
14.04.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
21.04.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
28.04.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
05.05.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
12.05.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
19.05.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
26.05.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
02.06.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
09.06.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
16.06.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Wednesday
23.06.
11:00 - 13:00
Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Written final test.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
To make students familiar with the literary and cultural manifestations of a relatively homogenous region of the United States which since the late 1920s showed remarkable creative potential.
Examination topics
Lecture course supported by films and other visual material and popular music from the region. Students are encouraged to actively participate in discussions.
Reading list
Students are expected to purchase a Reader containing various short stories and acquire the following novels: Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding, Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter, Cormac McCarthy, Child of God, and Walker Percy Lancelot.
Association in the course directory
Diplom 343, UF 344, MA 812, MA 844
LI 12-0115, SP-Code 321, 326/328, 336/338, 721-723 / M01
LI 12-0115, SP-Code 321, 326/328, 336/338, 721-723 / M01
Last modified: We 09.09.2020 00:22
The course will consider the paradox of the social and economic backwardness and the exceptional cultural productivity of states like Mississippi and Georgia, and will reflect on the resources which made a cultural flowering possible. Among the authors to be considered are William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Carson Mc Cullers, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Cormac McCarthy, James Dickey and Bobbie Ann Mason. We will also look at more recent texts, exploring transformations of Southern literature in postmodern culture.
We shall also view film versions of fictional texts such as Dickey's Deliverance.