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Veranstaltungsname Hauptseminar: The Roaring Twenties in US Literature and Culture
Semester WS 2010/11
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 0
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft
Veranstaltungstyp Hauptseminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Dienstag, 12.10.2010 18:15 - 19:45, Ort: (Dachritzstr. Raum 214)
Lernorganisation Required Texts:
John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (Penguin Modern Classics)
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)
Nella Larson, Passing (any edition; e.g., The Complete Fiction of Nella Larson)

A reader with additional texts will be provided in the first session.
Leistungsnachweis regular attendance, writing assignments, a brief oral presentation, final paper
Studiengänge (für) MA 120 Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur
LAG, LAS Vertiefungsmodul Themen, Genres, Epochen der amerikanischen Literatur (wahlobl.)
MA, D, LA (alt)
SWS 2
Sonstiges The course begins in the second week of the semester (October 12).
ECTS-Punkte 5

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(Dachritzstr. Raum 214)
Dienstag: 18:15 - 19:45, wöchentlich (14x)

Kommentar/Beschreibung

In this course we will explore diverse facets of prose and poetry written by American authors in the 1920s. We will begin our journey with Blues and Jazz poems by the Harlemite Langston Hughes and others, and then examine a short story collected in Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jean Toomer’s experimental work Cane. Our approach to the decade will also involve the discussion of topics such as urbanization (John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer), war and disillusionment (Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time), the Southern context (William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury), and ethnic fictions of identity (Nella Larson’s Passing). This course is designed for graduate students who want to learn more about American literature and culture in the 1920s and deepen their knowledge of a seminal period in the U.S. Students of all programs can take it for Hauptseminar credits. It is expected that students will have read the novels by Dos Passos and Faulkner before the first session of our course.