Allgemeine Informationen
| Veranstaltungsname | Seminar: Aufbaumodul Amerikanische Literatur - Childhood Perspectives in American Literature |
| Untertitel | Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur |
| Semester | SS 2019 |
| Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden | 18 |
| erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl | 30 |
| Heimat-Einrichtung | Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft |
| Veranstaltungstyp | Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
| Erster Termin | Mittwoch, 03.04.2019 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: Sitzungszimmer [Mel] |
| Teilnehmende | This class is open to teacher students only. Anybody who wants credit for this class will have to take an oral exam of 30 mins. in mid- July. |
| 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 childhood perspectives in American literature. |
| Lernorganisation | In order for students to pick up 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 (HaLit, 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. |
| Leistungsnachweis |
Requirements All students taking this class must have a copy of each novel in paper format and bring the relevant book to class. Not having the relevant novel with you is unacceptable. Students will need to pass several quizzes if they want credit for this seminar. Quizzes are tests checking on whether students have read the novels and require no background reading. They are expected not to miss more than three sessions and participate actively in discussions. Also, students must present in class (15-20 mins. plus 5-10 mins. discussion) on a topic to be arranged with the lecturer. Each student must present a handout (Thesenpapier) that is sent to the lecturer a week before the 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. |
| Studiengänge (für) |
ANG.03202.02 [Aufbaumodul] Amerikanische Literatur LA Gym, LA Sek ANG.05280.03 Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur LA Gym, LA Sek ab WS 2012/13 |
| SWS | 2 |
| Sonstiges |
LITERATURE Did you know that as a student at MLU you are entitled to a free version of Citavi or EndNote? Citavi and EndNote manage your sources and, among many other things, produce bibliographies in MLA style with a click of your mouse. Check details at <bibliothek.uni-halle.de/benutz/litverwalt/>. 1. PRIMARY LITERATURE [PLEASE, PURCHASE THESE EDITIONS SO WE ALL CAN USE THE SAME EDITION IN CLASS] Foer, Jonathan S. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. London: Penguin, 2006. Print. [ISBN: 9780141025186] [ca. € 7,50] Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 50th Anniversary Edition. London: Arrow Books, 2010; 11960. Print. [ISBN: 978-0-09-954948-2] [ca. € 7,00] Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: An authoritative text contexts and sources criticism. Ed. Thomas Cooley. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1999. Print. A Norton critical edition. [ISBN: 9780393966404] [ca. € 8,00] 2. SECONDARY SOURCES Baker, Russell. Growing Up. New York: Signet, 1984; 11983. Print. Bendixen, Alfred, ed. A Companion to the American Novel. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2012; pb. 2015. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 80. Bidinger, Elizabeth. The Ethics of Working Class Autobiography: Representation of Family by four American authors. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co, 2006. Print. Bragard, Veronique, Christophe Dony, and Warren Rosenberg, eds. Portraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. Print. Brown, Don. American Boy: The Adventures of Mark Twain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 2003. Print. Cassuto, Leonard, Clare V. Eby, and Benjamin Reiss, eds. The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011. Print. Curnutt, Kirk, Matthew J. Bruccoli, and Richard Layman. Alienated-Youth Fiction. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2001. Print. Gale study guides to great literature Literary topcis 16. Elbert, Monika M., ed. Enterprising Youth: Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children's Literature. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. Print. Children's literature and culture. Elliott, Emory, gen. ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia UP, 1988. Print. Engler, Bernd, and Kurt Müller. Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000. Print. Jonnes, Denis. Cold War American Literature and the Rise of Youth Culture: Children of Empire. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2014. Print. Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature. Locke, Richard. Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 2011. Print. Litton, Matt. The Mockingbird Parables: Transforming Lives Through the Power of Story. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2010. Print. Mac Donnell, Kevin, and Raymond Kent Rasmussen, eds. Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in his Life and Writings. Foreword by Hal Holbrook. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Print. Marcus, Greil, and Werner Sollors. A New Literary History of America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2009. Print. Harvard UP Reference Library. Messent, Peter, and Louis J. Budd, eds. A Companion to Mark Twain. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 2005. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Robinson, Forrest G., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Print. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Sarat, Austin, and Martha M. Umphrey, eds. Reimagining To Kill a Mockingbird: Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice Under Law. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts Press, 2013. Print. Scharnhorst, Gary. Twain in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010. Print. Writers in Their Own Time. von Sehlen, Silke. Poetiken kindlichen Erzählens: inszenierte Kinder-Erzähler im Gegenwartsroman aus komparatistischer Perspektive. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015. Print. Trites, Roberta S. Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and Cognition in Adolescent Literature. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. Print. Children's Literature, Culture, and Cognition v. 2. Twain, Mark, and Beverly L. Clark, eds. The adventures of Tom Sawyer: Authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism. 1. ed. New York: Norton, 2007. Print. A Norton critical edition. Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts on File, 2006. Print. Facts on File library of American literature. Wonham, Henry B. Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Print. Zapf, Hubert, and Helmbrecht Breinig, eds. Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. 3rd ed. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010. Print. ON STYLE MANUALS AND ON WRITING Kruse, Otto. Keine Angst vor dem leeren Blatt: Ohne Schreibblockaden durchs Studium. 12. völlig neu bearbeitete Aufl. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2007. Print. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print. Niederhauser, Jürg. Duden - Die schriftliche Arbeit kurz gefasst: Eine Anleitung zum Schreiben von Arbeiten in Schule und Studium. 4. neu bearbeitete und aktualisierte Aufl. Mannheim: Dudenverlag, 2006. Print. |
| ECTS-Punkte | 5 |
