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Seminar: 19th Century American Short Story - Vertiefungsmodul - Details
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Course name Seminar: 19th Century American Short Story - Vertiefungsmodul
Course number ANG.04630.02
Semester SoSe 2024
Current number of participants 15
maximum number of participants 25
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Tuesday, 21.05.2024 14:15 - 15:45, Room: Seminarraum 3 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Studiengänge (für) ANG.04630.02 für Current Developments in the American Short Story
SWS 2

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19th Century American Short Story

The rise of the American short story exhibited an unprecedented creativity: Authors reflected on the genre and experimented with form, language, and themes. We will trace the development of the American short story from its beginnings to the early modernist period and examine classic and less well-known short stories from a diverse group of authors, including Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Chesnutt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, and Zitkala-Ša. We will conduct close readings and discuss the literary texts in light of recent criticism and theoretical approaches (e.g., transnationalism, gender and ethnic studies, and short story theories). Our course will be supplemented with a guest lecture on Poe and his work.

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The course material will be made available on the ILIAS platform.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: 19th Century American Short Story - Vertiefungsmodul".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.