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123030 VO Literature Survey 2 (2016S)

North American Literatures, 15th-21st Century

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

This course offers an overview of North American literary history, with a focus on U.S. literary history from the pre-Columbian era to today. In addition, it will feature two guest speakers, one of them the Canadian author Michael Crummey (last session; tentative at this point!). Caribbean and Canadian literature will also be discussed (though, for reasons of time, to a lesser extent).
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Details

max. 150 participants
Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 10.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 17.03. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 07.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 14.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 21.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 28.04. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 12.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 19.05. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 02.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 09.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 16.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Thursday 23.06. 18:30 - 20:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

- students have acquired a general overview of Anglophone literatures in North America from a diachronic perspective
- students can differentiate between different literary genres in terms of their development
- students can reflect critically about canon formation

Contents: Native American oral literature; Colonial American Literatures (from Columbus to the Puritans); Writing during the Revolution; the early Republic; Antebellum American Literatures; The Civil War and Reconstruction; the late 19th century; modernism; postmodernism; Canadian literature, Caribbean literature; contemporary trends.

Methods: Lecture course (with interactive elements)

Assessment and permitted materials

Final written exam (90 min.), Multiple Choice

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Knowledge of the texts on the reading list and of the individual lectures

Examination topics

in toto

Reading list

tba

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, EC 125, EC 126; BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 3.3.3-303, BA08.2; Literaturgeschichte / Survey 2 - EC; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3030

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