Allgemeine Informationen
| Veranstaltungsname | Seminar: American Short Stories: Local Color, Realism, Naturalism |
| Untertitel | [Aufbaumodul] Amerikanische Literatur, Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur, Aufbaumodul Amerikanistik Literatur II, Aufbaumodul: Amerikanistik Literatur II |
| Semester | SS 2017 |
| Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden | 15 |
| Heimat-Einrichtung | Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft |
| Veranstaltungstyp | Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
| Erster Termin | Mittwoch, 05.04.2017 08:30 - 10:00, Ort: (Ludwig-Wucherer-Straße 2, Hörsaal V) |
| Art/Form | Seminar |
| 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 American Short Stories in the age of realism and naturalism. It encompasses many local color stories that were popular between the end of the Civil War (1865) and the beginning of World War I. |
| 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. |
| Leistungsnachweis |
Students will need to pass several quizzes if they want credit for this seminar. Quizzes are tests checking on whether students have read the short stories. Please, do not miss more than three sessions. (The legal view on Anwesenheitspflicht is preposterous as it ignores the fact that we practice speaking and arguing in English in our seminars.) 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 July). The BA essays are due at the end of September. |
| Studiengänge (für) |
[Aufbaumodul] Amerikanische Literatur ANG.03202.02 LA Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur ANG.05280.03 LA Aufbaumodul Amerikanistik Literatur II ANG.04627.03 BA Aufbaumodul: Amerikanistik Literatur II ANG.06153.01 BA |
| SWS | 2 |
| Sonstiges |
LITERATURE 1) PRIMARY LITERATURE (REQUIRED READING) The Portable American Realism Reader. Ed. and with introductions by James Nagel and Tom Quirk. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. [ISBN 978-0-140-26830-0] 2) Secondary Literature Ahrends, Günter. Die amerikanische Kurzgeschichte. 5. Aufl. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008. [11980] [MLUB] American Short-Story Writers Before 1880. Eds. Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant. Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 1988. [MLUB] American Short-Story Writers, 1880-1910. Eds. Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1989. [MLUB] Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. Hg. Hubert Zapf. 3. Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010. [MLUB] Ammons, Elizabeth, and Valerie Rohy. "Introduction". American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920. Eds. Elizabeth Ammons and Valerie Rohy. New York: Penguin, 1998. vii-xxx. Bungert, Hans, Hg. Die amerikanische Short Story: Theorie und Entwicklung. Wege der Forschung, 256. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972. [MLUB] The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. Ed. Blanche H. Gelfant. New York: Columbia UP, 2000. Print. Columbia Literary History of the United States. Ed. Emory Elliot. New York: Columbia UP, 1988. [MLUB] A Companion to the American Short Story. Eds. Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2010. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Die Englische und amerikanische Kurzgeschichte. Hg. Klaus Lubbers. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1990. [MLUB] The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story. Ed. Abby H. P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 2000. [MLUB] A History of the American Short Story: Genres - Developments - Model Interpretations. Eds. Michael Basseler and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wiss. Verlag Trier, 2011. WVT Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium, 14. Interpretationen: Amerikanische Short Stories des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ed. Michael Hanke. Stuttgart: Reclam, 1998. Print. Universal-Bibliothek, 17506. 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. Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. UTB basics. 4. Aufl. Tübingen: Francke, 2012. Print. Nagel, James. The American Short Story Handbook. New York: Wiley & Sons, 2015. Blackwell Literature Handbooks. A New Literary History of America. Eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2009. [MLUB] Die Short Story im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II: Theorie und Praxis. Ed. Peter Freese, Horst Groene und Liesel Hermes. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1979. Print. Informationen zur Sprach und Literaturdidaktik. 23. Scofield, Martin. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [MLUB] Tallack, Douglas. The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story: Language, Form, and Ideology. London: Routledge, 1993. [MLUB] Winter, Molly Crumpton. "The Multiethnic American Short Story." A Companion to the American Short Story. Eds. Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2010. 466-481. Blackwell companions to literature and culture. |
| ECTS-Punkte | 5 |
