Successful attendance of the “Introduction to Literary Studies” is the prerequisite for attending this seminar.
Required Reading by October 13th, 2010
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. New York: Signet Classics, 2009. Print. (ISBN: 0451531140, 978-0451531148).
Lernorganisation
In the new semester, there will be a Handapparat in the library Neuphilologie.
Leistungsnachweis
There will be a mandatory test with questions on the content of the primary works in the course of the semester. To receive a credit for this class, students are expected to read all primary texts and additional secondary literature, to pass the mentioned test, participate in class discussions, and hold a presentation in English. Further requirements (essays, papers, oral exams) will be presented in the first session of the seminar on October 6th. They may vary according to the course of studies (Studiengang) you have chosen.
There will be an early deadline for essays and papers, since this is the lecturer’s last semester at the University of Halle!
Studiengänge (für)
BA Aufbaumodul Amerikanistik Literatur I oder II
LA Aufbaumodul Amerikanistik Literatur
LA (alt), MA (alt), D (wahlobl.)
SWS
2
Sonstiges
There will be an early deadline for essays and papers, since this is the lecturer’s last semester at the University of Halle!
In this seminar, we will focus on Chicago as an exciting ‘literary landscape’ worth discovering. We will read and discuss important writers from the late 19th to the late 20th century such as Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Carl Sandburg, Lorraine Hansberry, Sterling A. Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, and David Mamet. The literary works on which we will focus are novels, plays as well as individual poems. These texts will provide a variety of perspectives on Chicago — male, female, white, and African-American. Moreover, we will also look at the city’s non-literary cultural heritage and discuss its history and architecture.
Students are expected to have read Sister Carrie by October 13th, 2010. The second novel to be read and prepared will be Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. This book can be downloaded and printed out as an ebook from the library server (see links below). For the seminar you MUST print out a hard copy of the book and bring it to class. Please buy or use the same editions of Sister Carrie and The Jungle (see ISBN) which you find in the required reading list below!
There will be a mandatory test with questions on the content of the primary works in the course of the semester. To receive a credit for this class, students are expected to read all primary texts and additional secondary literature, to pass the mentioned test, participate in class discussions, and hold a presentation in English. Further requirements (essays, papers, oral exams) will be presented in the first session of the seminar on October 6th. They may vary according to the course of studies (Studiengang) you have chosen.
Required Reading by October 13th, 2010
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. New York: Signet Classics, 2009. Print. (ISBN: 0451531140, 978-0451531148).
Digital Reader on Stud.Ip (available in October 2010)
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Vintage, 1988. Print.
Mamet, David. Sexual Perversity in Chicago. London: Methuen, 1994. Print.
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Champaign, Ill.: Project Gutenberg, 1906. NetLibrary. Web. 24 August 2010.
(eBook ISBN: 9780585017174
Links: http://opac.bibliothek.unihalle.de/DB=1/SET=3/TTL=1/SHW?FRST=1 OR http://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm)
Additional Poems by Carl Sandburg, Sterling A. Brown, and Gwendolyn Brooks
Notes
There will be an early deadline for essays and papers, since this is the lecturer’s last semester at the University of Halle!
Successful attendance of the “Introduction to Literary Studies” is the prerequisite for attending this seminar.
Enrollment will take place in the first session.
In the new semester, there will be a Handapparat in the library Neuphilologie.
