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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: American Modernism - Vertiefungsmodul
Veranstaltungsnummer ANG.04629.02
Semester WS 2021/22
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 11
maximale Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Dienstag, 12.10.2021 10:30 - 12:00, Ort: Seminarraum 3 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Studiengänge (für) ANG.04629.02 für LA Gym, Sek Englisch (2012+2015)/ LA Förder (Sekundar) Englisch (2012+2015) / MA Engl. Spr. u Lit 45/75 LP (2015) / MA Angloam. Lit., Spr u Kult. 120 LP (2015)
SWS 2

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Kommentar/Beschreibung

In the much-admired study on modern culture, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982), Marshall Berman defines modernity as the experience of incessant metamorphosis: “To be modern,” he states, “is to experience personal and social life as a maelstrom, to find one’s world and oneself in perpetual disintegration and renewal, trouble and anguish, ambiguity and contradiction: to be part of a universe in which all that is solid melts into air” (345). Berman draws a dialectical relationship between the unfolding modernization (“progress”) of a primarily urban environment and the development of modernist art and thought. He claims that the greatest accomplishment of modernist artists was to make the vital interplay between opposing values such as permanence and perpetual change visible in their experimental work.
In this course, we will approach the daunting topic from a cultural-historical perspective before delving into examples from American modernist literature. Our starting point for nearly every session will be Tim Armstrong’s classic study Modernism: A Cultural History (2005), which provides an excellent overview of cultural developments in ‘modern’ America (and Europe), before we will explore an astonishing variety of innovative and highly experimental art and reflect on the relationship between the modern era and the form of modern art. What does it mean to be ‘modern’? What is a ‘modern’ experience of time? Why do modern artworks look like they do? Our journey into American modernism will cover different media (film, photography, music, and fiction) and genres (e.g., short stories by Hemingway, poetry by T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Amy Lowell, and jazz). It also includes a side trip to mass culture and the emergence of comic art.

Required texts (please purchase the following book):
- Armstrong, Tim. Modernism: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005.

- Additional course material will be made available on the ILIAS platform.

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Diese Veranstaltung gehört zum Anmeldeset "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: American Modernism - Vertiefungsmodul".
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  • Die Anmeldung ist möglich von 20.09.2021, 01:00 bis 31.10.2021, 23:00.