Universität Wien

120127 VO Survey of Literatures in English 2 (2010S)

American Literature & Culture from the Early 17th to the Late 19th Centuries

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Diese LVA gilt für das Bachelorstudium nach UG2002, das EC English and American Studies Literature 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

  • Thursday 18.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 25.03. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 15.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 22.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 29.04. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 06.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 20.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 27.05. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 10.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Thursday 17.06. 10:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This lecture course aims at tracing the development of American perspectives through the content, style, and genres of American writings from the early colonial periods to the end of the 19th century. By using canonical and less canonical texts of the respective periods, the course attempts to approach the major political, social, and religious concerns of Puritan America, Colonial America, and pre-Civil War America, and the America of the Gilded Age. We will define the major elements of Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism and explain how these philosophies affected (early) American literature. There will be set readings, but only one novel that you need to read in its enterity, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. If you are interested in the course, please check my staff page http://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/banauch/ where you will find more detailed information near the end of the term break.

Assessment and permitted materials

Final written exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Aspects of North American literatures and cultures from the early beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century

Examination topics

Lecture course (slides, audio and video presentations)

Reading list

Texts to be prepared: Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Norton Critical Edition (1999). Copies can be obtained at Facultas, Uni Campus, Hof 1.
Excerpts from other works by Winthrop, Franklin, Paine, Poe, Thoreau, Dickinson etc. will be provided in electronic format.

Association in the course directory

Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612, EC 123
LI 12-0102, SPCode 303, 701 / BA09

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