General information
| Course name | Seminar: Two Centuries of American Short Stories (1800-2000) |
| Subtitle | Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur / Aufbaumodul Amerikanistik Literatur II / Aufbaumodul: Amerikanistik Literatur II |
| Semester | WS 2017/18 |
| Current number of participants | 6 |
| Home institute | Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft |
| Courses type | Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
| First date | Tuesday, 10.10.2017 18:15 - 19:45, Room: (Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35, SR 3) |
| Pre-requisites | Students who have successfully passed their "Introduction to Literary Studies" (Basismodul Einführung in die englische und amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft) are welcome to this course that aims at giving students insight into the history, theory, and practice of the American short story since the early 19th century. |
| Learning organisation | 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. |
| Performance record |
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 stories. 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 paper 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 2018. |
| Studiengänge (für) |
ANG.03202.02 [Aufbaumodul] Amerikanische Literatur ANG.05280.03 Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur ANG.04627.03 Aufbaumodul Amerikanistik Literatur II ANG.06153.01 Aufbaumodul: Amerikanistik Literatur II |
| SWS | 2 |
| Miscellanea |
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 THIS EDITION SO WE ALL CAN USE THE SAME EDITION IN CLASS] Boddy, Kasia. The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories: From Washington Irving to Lydia Davis. London: Penguin, 2011. Print. [ISBN 978-0-141-19442-4] [Thalia ca. 11.50 €] 2. SECONDARY LITERATURE Ahrends, Günter. Die amerikanische Kurzgeschichte. 5. Aufl. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008. Print. [11980] [MLUB] Ammons, Elizabeth, and Valerie Rohy, eds. American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920. Eds. New York: Penguin, 1998. Print. Basseler, Michael, and Ansgar Nünning, eds. A History of the American Short Story: Genres – Developments – Model Interpretations. Trier: WVT, 2011. Print. WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium, 14. Bendixen, Alfred, and James Nagel, eds. A Companion to the American Short Story. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Boddy, Kasia. The American Short Story Since 1950. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010. Print. Bungert, Hans, Hg. Die amerikanische Short Story: Theorie und Entwicklung. Wege der Forschung, 256. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972. Print [MLUB] Elliot, Emory, gen. ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia UP, 1988. Print. [MLUB] Engler, Bernd, und Kurt Müller, Hg. Metzler Lexikon Amerikanischer Autoren. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000. Print. Gelfant, Blanche H., ed. The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. New York: Columbia UP, 2000. Print. Hanke, Michael, Hg. Interpretationen: Amerikanische Short Stories des 20. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1998. Print. Universal-Bibliothek, 17506. Kimbel, Bobby Ellen, and William E. Grant, eds. American Short-Story Writers Before 1880. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1988. Print. [MLUB] Kimbel, Bobby Ellen, and William E. Grant, eds. American Short-Story Writers, 1880-1910. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1989. Print. [MLUB] Klaus Lubbers, Hg. Die Englische und amerikanische Kurzgeschichte. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1990. Print. [MLUB] Luscher, Robert M. "The American Short-Story Cycle: Out from the Novel's Shadow." A Companion to the American Novel. Ed. Alfred Bendixen. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2015. 357-372. Print. Marcus, Greil, and Werner Sollors, eds. A New Literary History of America. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2009. Print. [MLUB] Nagel, James. The American Short Story Handbook. New York: Wiley & Sons, 2015. Print. Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Peter Freese, Horst Groene, und Liesel Hermes, Hg. Die Short Story im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II: Theorie und Praxis. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1979. Print. Informationen zur Sprach und Literaturdidaktik. 23. Scofield, Martin. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. Print. [MLUB] Tallack, Douglas. The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story: Language, Form, and Ideology. London: Routledge, 1993. Print. [MLUB] Werlock, Abby H. P., and James P. Werlock, eds. The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story. 2nd ed. New York NY: Facts On File, 2010. Print. [MLUB] Zapf, Hubert, Hg. Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. 3. Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010. Print. |
| ECTS points | 5 |
