160071 PS Literary Cross-Currents (PS): 1960s Counterculture in Music and Literature (2010W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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max. 40 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Wednesday
06.10.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
13.10.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
13.10.
15:30 - 16:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
20.10.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
20.10.
15:30 - 16:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
27.10.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
27.10.
15:30 - 16:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
03.11.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
10.11.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
10.11.
15:30 - 16:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
17.11.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
17.11.
15:30 - 16:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
24.11.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
24.11.
15:30 - 16:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
01.12.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
01.12.
15:30 - 16:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
15.12.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
12.01.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
19.01.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
19.01.
15:30 - 16:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
26.01.
14:00 - 15:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
Wednesday
26.01.
15:30 - 16:30
Seminarraum 3 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
active participation
oral presentations, discussions, essays
paper (approx. 15 pages)
oral presentations, discussions, essays
paper (approx. 15 pages)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Literary and musical works with a relation to the counterculture of the 1960s shall be analyzed, using methods of comparative literature studies.
Examination topics
The different topics shall be analyzed in oral presentations, moderated discussions, and a paper, using two or more thematically related texts or music sources.
Reading list
Primary sources:
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion
Joan Didion Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America
Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
Thomas Pynchon Vineland
Thomas Pynchon Inherent Vice
T. C. Boyle Drop City
Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
Norman Mailer The Armies of the Night
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tom Robbins Another Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the BluesText-book:
Scott MacFarlane The Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland 2007A complete bibliography and discography will be provided at the beginning of the term.
Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion
Joan Didion Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America
Robert Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land
Thomas Pynchon Vineland
Thomas Pynchon Inherent Vice
T. C. Boyle Drop City
Tom Wolfe The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five
Norman Mailer The Armies of the Night
Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tom Robbins Another Roadside Attraction
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the BluesText-book:
Scott MacFarlane The Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland 2007A complete bibliography and discography will be provided at the beginning of the term.
Association in the course directory
Diplomstudium VL 130, VL 131,
BA M4,
BA M4,
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From Beat to Hippie: the transition from one countercultural movement to another the influence of mass media on the image-making process
Summer of Love: the early stages of the hippie movement, especially in San Francisco
Back to the Garden: the rise of the back-to-the-country-movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Student movements of the 1960s
Utopias of the counterculture: From Robert Heinlein to Jefferson Starship
internal criticism of social inadequacies int 1960s counterculture
the influence of 1960s counterculture in later decades
international countercultural movements, e.g. the beginnings of German pop literature with Brinkmann and Rygulla, or the Mexican Onda Chicana movement