Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin
Dienstag, 05.04.2016 18:15 - 19:45, Ort: (Seminarraum 3, AKS 35)
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 the Jewish American short story.
Leistungsnachweis
Requirements
Students will need to pass quizzes if they want credit for this class. Quizzes are tests checking on whether students have read the primary works. In addition, students will have to attend the course regularly not missing more than two sessions. All students are also expected to participate actively in class and do a short presentation on a topic to be arranged with the lecturer. It must be accompanied by a handout (Thesenpapier) that students need to send the lecturer a week before the presentation in class. A copy of this handout must be presented to all students on the day of the 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)
ANG.03202.02 - Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur - LA Gym, LA Sek
ANG.05280.02 - Aufbaumodul: Amerikanische Literatur - LA - Gym, LA Sek (ab WS 2012/13)
ANG.04627.03 - Aufbaumodul Amerikanistik Literatur II - BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60/90 LP
ANG.06153.01 - Aufbaumodul: Amerikanistik Literatur II - BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60/90 LP (ab WS 15/16)
The contribution of Jewish authors to American literature is often not apparent as many of these writers are seen as primarily American and not Jewish American. From the perspective of American literary history, however, "it’s simply impossible to imagine [ . . . ] the field of American autobiography without considering the contribution of Mary Antin, or American modernism without Gertrude Stein, or American drama without Arthur Miller, or postwar American fiction without Philip Roth, or the American graphic novel without Art Spiegelman. Each of these figures demonstrates how the issues at the center of American Jewish literature are likewise central to American culture as a whole." (Lambert) A useful survey of contributions to the American short story by Jewish-American authors can be found in Andrew Furman's "The Jewish American Story."
In this class we will be putting the focus on the Jewish American short story and its development since the late 19th century. We will read a selection of about thirty stories and give emphasis to about half that number to be discussed in depth in our course. Among the authors we are reading are Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tillie Olsen, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth, Melvin J. Bukiet, Lev Raphael, and a few stories dealing with related issues (Irving, Jackson). In addition, there will be a sketch of the development of the American short story (theory, history) and background reading on the history of Jews in America. Many of the stories will be made available on StudIP as the anthologies I am using (Shapiro, Howe et al.) are out of print.
In order for students to pick up some skills necessary in academia, we will spend some time on how to do presentations, how to do research, and 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. Our model for all written work will be the MLA and its style sheet in its latest edition. (The new 8th edition will appear in April 2016, but we will still be using the 7th ed. this summer.)
LITERATURE
PRIMARY
TEXTBOOKS [Please, check "Dateien" on StudIP NOW]
Howe, Irving. Jewish-American Stories. New York: New American Library, 1977. Print. A Mentor book ME 1546.
Shapiro, Gerald, ed. American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1998. Print.
OTHER ANTHOLOGIES – JEWISH AMERICAN SHORT STORIES AND FICTION
Antler, Joyce, ed. America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. Print. [UB MLU]
Bukiet, Melvin J., and David G. Roskies, eds. Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewish Fiction. New York: Persea Books, 2006. Print. [UB MLU]
Chametzky, Jules et al., eds. Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology. New York, NY: Norton, 2001. Print. [UB MLU]
Charyn, Jerome, ed. Inside the Hornet's Head: An Anthology of Jewish American Writing. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005. Print. [UB MLU]
Feuerman, Ruchama K., ed. Everyone's Got a Story: 41 Short Stories from a New Generation of Jewish Writers. Brooklyn, NY: Judaica Press, 2008. Print.
Nadel, Max. Portraits of the American Jew: An Anthology of Short Stories by American Jewish Writers. Woodbury, N.Y. Barron's Educational Series, 1977. Print.
Raphael, Lev. Dancing on Tisha b'Av. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. Print. [UB MLU]
Raphael, Lev. Secret Anniversaries of the Heart: New & Selected Stories. Wellfleet, MA: Leapfrog Press, 2006. Print. [UB MLU]
Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories. 1st Vintage International ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. Print. [UB MLU]
Rubin, Derek. Promised Lands: New Jewish American Fiction on Longing and Belonging. Waltham, MA: Brandeis UP; 2010. Print. HBI series on Jewish women.
Solotaroff, Ted, and Nessa Rapoport, eds. Writing Our Way Home: Contemporary Stories by American Jewish Writers. New York: Schocken, 1992; rpt. as The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction. Eds. Ted Solotaroff and Nessa Rapoport. New York: Schocken, 1996.
SECONDARY SOURCES
Aarons, Victoria, Avinoam J. Patt, and Mark Shechner, eds. The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction. Detroit, MI: Wayne State UP, 2015. Print.
Ahrends, Günter. Die amerikanische Kurzgeschichte. 5th ed. Trier: Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2008. Print. WVT-Studienbuch.
Avery, Evelyn G. Modern Jewish Women Writers in America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.
Basseler, Michael, and Ansgar Nünning, eds. A History of the American Short Story: Genres – Developments – Model Interpretations. Trier: WVT, 2011. Print. WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium, 14.
Bendixen, Alfred, and James Nagel, eds. A Companion to the American Short Story. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture.
Bungert, Hans, ed. Die amerikanische Short Story: Theorie und Entwicklung. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972. Print. Wege der Forschung, 256.
Chametzky, Jules. Main Currents in American Jewish Literature from the 1880's to the 1950's (and beyond). New York: Gordon and Breach, 1982. Print.
Cronin, Gloria L., and Alan L. Berger. Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2009. Print. Facts on File library of American literature.
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.
Fischel, Jack, and Sanford Pinsker, eds. Jewish-American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publ, 1992. Print. Garland reference library of the social sciences 429. [UB MLU]
Fried, Lewis, et al. Handbook of American-Jewish Literature: An Analytical Guide to Topics, Themes, and Sources. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. Print.
Furman, Andrew. "The Jewish American Story." A Companion to the American Short Story. Eds. Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 450-465. Print. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture.
Kaplan, Dana E. The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism. Cambridge, New York, NY: Cambridge UP, 2005. Print. Cambridge companions to religion.
Lambert, Josh. "American Jewish Literature." Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2015. Web.
[www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199840731/obo-9780199840731-0113.xml#obo-9780199840731-0113-bibItem-0012]
Liptzin, Solomon. The Jew in American Literature. New York: Bloch, 1966. Print.
Levy, Andrew. The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. Print. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 68.
Malin, Irving. Contemporary American-Jewish literature: Critical essays. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1973. Print.
Marcus, Greil, and Werner Sollors, eds. A New Literary History of America. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2009. Print.
Peden, William. The American Short Story: A Critical History. Boston, Mass: Twayne Publ, 1983. Print. Twayne's Critical History of the Short Story.
Scofield, Martin. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. Print. Cambridge Introductions to Literature.
Walden, Daniel. Twentieth-century American-Jewish fiction writers. Detroit, Mich. Gale Research Co., 1984. Print. Dictionary of literary biography 28.
Werlock, Abby H. P., and James P. Werlock, eds. The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story. 2nd ed. New York NY: Facts on File, 2010. Print.
Wirth-Nesher, Hana, and Michael P. Kramer, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. Print.
Zapf, Hubert, Hg. Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. 3. Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010. Print.
