Allgemeine Informationen
Veranstaltungsname | Seminar: African American Novels (1900-1950s) |
Untertitel | Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur / Aufbaumodul Amerikanistik Literatur I / Aufbaumodul: Amerikanistik Literatur I |
Semester | WS 2017/18 |
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden | 5 |
Heimat-Einrichtung | Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft |
Veranstaltungstyp | Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
Erster Termin | Montag, 09.10.2017 18:15 - 19:45, Ort: (Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35, SR 3) |
Voraussetzungen | Students who have successfully passed their "Introduction to Literary Studies” (Basismodul Einführung in die englische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft) are welcome to this course on selected African American novels published between 1900 and the early 1950s. |
Lernorganisation | In order for students to pick up some skills necessary in academia, we will spend some time on how to do research and presentations as well as on how to write papers. The university library (OPAC, MLA-IB and other databases) will be a topic as will be the Internet as a research tool (JStor, Google Scholar etc.). In addition, there will be an introduction to CITAVI and how to use that bibliographical tool. The MLA style sheet (7th ed., 2009) is our model for all written work. (Please, do NOT use MLA 8th ed., 2016.) How to write essays the way American colleges expect them to be written will also be discussed. |
Leistungsnachweis |
Requirements Students will need to pass several quizzes if they want credit for this seminar. Quizzes are tests checking on whether students have read the novels. Please, do not miss more than three sessions. All students are expected to participate actively in discussions. Also, students must present in class (20 mins. plus discussion) on a topic to be arranged with the lecturer. It must be accompanied by a handout (Thesenpapier). Please, send your handout to the lecturer a week before your presentation is due. A copy of the reviewed handout must be available to all students on the day of presentation. Reading assignments (secondary literature) will be given on a weekly basis. Studying in groups is encouraged. At the end of the semester BA students will have to write an essay/Hausarbeit (ca. 12-14 pages) whereas students planning to be teachers will have to take an oral exam of 30 mins. (probably in February ). The BA essays are due at the end of March. |
Studiengänge (für) |
ANG.03202.02 [Aufbaumodul] Amerikanische Literatur ANG.05280.03 Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur ANG.04628.03 Aufbaumodul Amerikanistik Literatur I ANG.06158.01 Aufbaumodul: Amerikanistik Literatur I |
SWS | 2 |
Sonstiges |
LITERATURE Did you know that as a student at MLU you are entitled to a free version of Citavi? Citavi manages your sources and, among many other things, produces bibliographies in MLA style with a click of your mouse. Check details at <bibliothek.uni-halle.de/benutz/citavi/>. 1. PRIMARY LITERATURE [PLEASE, PURCHASE THESE EDITIONS SO WE ALL CAN USE THE SAME EDITION IN CLASS] Chesnutt, Charles W. The Marrow of Tradition: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Werner Sollors. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2012. Print. A Norton Critical Edition. [EAN 978-0-393-93414-4] Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. London: Viking, 2014. Print. [EAN 978-0-241-97056-0] Hurston, Zora N. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Print. [EAN 978-0-060-83867-6] [Thalia.de] Larsen, Nella. Passing: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Carla Kaplan. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2007. Print. A Norton Critical Edition. [EAN 978-0-393-97916-9] 2. SECONDARY MATERIAL Babb, Valerie M. A History of the African American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017. Print. Bendixen, Alfred, ed. A Companion to the American Novel. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2012; pb. 2015. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 80. Bloom, Harold, ed. Ralph Ellison. New York, NY: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010. Print. Blooms's modern critical views. Bloom, Harold, ed. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 1999. Print. Bloom's notes. Cassuto, Leonard, Clare V. Eby, and Benjamin Reiss, eds. The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. Print. Donaldson, Melvin. "African American Traditions and the American Novel." A Companion to the American Novel. Ed. Alfred Bendixen. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2012; pb. 2015. 274-290. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 80. Elliott, Emory, gen. ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia UP, 1988. Print. Engler, Bernd, and Kurt Müller. Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000. Print. Graham, Maryemma, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Print. Marcus, Greil, and Werner Sollors, eds. A New Literary History of America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2009. Print. Harvard UP Reference Library. pb ed. 2012. Morel, Lucas E. Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man. Lexington: The UP of Kentucky, 2015. Print. Posnock, Ross, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. Print. Cambridge companions to literature. Rankine, Patrice D. Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin P, 2006. Print. Sundquist, Eric J. Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995. Print. A Bedford documentary companion. Tawil, Ezra F., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature. New York, NY: Cambridge UP, 2016. Print. Cambridge companions to literature. Wall, Cheryl A., ed. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A casebook. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Print. Casebooks in contemporary fiction. Werlock, Abby H. P. The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts on File, 2006. Print. Facts on File library of American literature. Zapf, Hubert, and Helmbrecht Breinig, eds. Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. 3rd ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010. Print. |
ECTS-Punkte | 5 |