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123250 AR Literature Course - Literature 1/2 (MA) American/North American (2016W)

American Literature around 1800

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 10.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 17.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 24.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 31.10. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 07.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 14.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 21.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 28.11. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 05.12. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 12.12. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 09.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 16.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 23.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Monday 30.01. 18:00 - 20:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This class examines U.S. American literary production around 1800, that is, during the American Revolution and the years of the early Republic. We will approach a select number of literary texts and ask questions about their aesthetic dimensions, their readers, their politics of representation, their public relevance, their materiality, and their dissemination. We will also talk about the ways in which these texts have been historicized ever since. In line with recent scholarship on this formative period of the American nation-state, we will examine issues of race, gender, sexuality, or class; we will discuss questions of the archive and canon formation; and we will talk about the larger transnational (transatlantic and hemispheric) entanglements of early American literature. Authors to be discussed include William Hill Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Olaudah Equiano, Washington Irving, Thomas Paine, Susanna Haswell Rowson, Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Royall Tyler, Mercy Otis Warren, as well as anonymous authors.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular attendance, active participation in class, presentation, weekly portfolio writing assignments

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Active class participation (20%)
Class presentation (20%)
Portfolio (60%)

You need to complete all requirements. You cannot pass this course if you miss out on one or more of the tasks mentioned below. There is a 60% pass rate (overall and for partial requirements).

Examination topics

n/a

Reading list

You need to buy/borrow the following books:

William Hill Brown: The Power of Sympathy
Catherine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

All books are available in affordable Penguin Classics editions, but you are free to choose whichever edition you like. Be aware, though, that they might have longer delivery times.

Additional readings will be provided on Moodle.

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, MA 844; MA UF 046
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-323-325, MA5, MA7; M04A
Lehrinhalt: 12-0267

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