What is and why do we study literature? What is required for an analysis and interpretation of literary works in a scholarly manner? What skills do we need for a systematic approach to literary studies? This course is designed to acquaint students with the terminology, methods, and techniques of literary studies by analyzing texts taken from various literary periods and genres, offering a first overview of American literary history from the colonial period to the present, combined with an introduction to the development of the genres prose, poetry, and drama and the analytical tools to analyze these texts.
Admission settings
The course is part of admission "Anmeldung gesperrt (global)".
