General information

Course name	Seminar: Vertiefungsmodul Themen, Genres, Epochen der amerikanischen Literatur/Amerikanistik Literatur II, Anglistik Literaturwissenschaft: Themen, Motive, Autoren der englischsprachigen Literatur I und II
Subtitle	The Literature of New York
Course number	ANG.03210.01;04630.02;03929.02
Semester	SS 2016
Current number of participants	1
Home institute	Amerikanistik / Literaturwissenschaft
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Tuesday, 05.04.2016 10:00 - 12:00
Studiengänge (für)	ANG.03929.02 und ANG.03934.02: MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur (120 LP) und MA Englische Sprache und Literatur (45/75 LP); ANG.03210.01: LAG, LAS; ANG.04630.02: LAG, LAS ab WS 12/13; MA ab 2015/16
SWS	2
ECTS points	5

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Erik Redling

Rooms and times

No room preference: Tuesday: 10:00 - 12:00, weekly(15x)

Fields of study

Philosophische Fakultät II - Philologien, Kommunikations- und Musikwissenschaften > Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Amerikanistik/Literaturwissenschaft

Comment/Description

This course will provide a survey of literature written about New York City. Together, we will explore a wide range of fascinating texts from the early 19th century to the present in order to gain a better understanding of the most outstanding and symbolic city of the United States. Our close encounters with New York will involve not only literary texts, but also texts from urban studies, critical essays as well as discussions on photographs, paintings, graphic novels, and films.

Required texts:
Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (1984; Edition: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007).

Other texts and novels will be made available in Stud.IP.