Seminar: Contemporary American Melodrama - Details

Seminar: Contemporary American Melodrama - Details

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Course name Seminar: Contemporary American Melodrama
Course number ANG.05280.03 ANG.06153.01
Semester WiSe 2025/26
Current number of participants 22
maximum number of participants 25
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Tuesday, 20.01.2026 14:15 - 15:45, Room: Seminarraum 2 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Lehrsprache(n) Englisch

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This course is inspired by the observation that contemporary American drama and theater – again – integrates song. The term "melos," Greek for song, originally defined 19th-century melodrama, a genre often criticized for its use of stereotypes, pathos, and sentimentality. What roles does song play in contemporary American drama and theater today? In this course, students will explore the cultural work contemporary American melodrama performs and how these texts reimagine both thematic and aesthetic melodramatic conventions.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Contemporary American Melodrama".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
  • The enrolment is possible from 29.09.2025, 12:00 to 20.10.2025, 12:00.