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Literaturstudien - intermedial und interkulturell (Master of Arts) >>
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Rural America: History, Culture and Literature- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Heike Paul
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, benoteter certificate, ECTS studies
Studienschwerpunkte Phil.I/Phil.II, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 12:15 - 13:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Hauptseminar gehört in den folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Modul 4,5,7 oder 8 MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4 MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Module 4,5,7 und 8 BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Literature oder Culture. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
Für BA-Studierende ist an diesen Kurs auch eine "Independent Study Group" angeschlossen.
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
- Contents
- In this seminar we will discuss historiographic, literary, poetic, and popular representations of rural America ranging from the agrarian vision of Thomas Jefferson in his “Notes on the State of Virginia” (1781), written at a time when most of ‘America’ was rural, to Daniel Woodrell’s contemporary rural thriller Winter’s Bone (2006). Thus, we will analyze the rural from a diachronic (past and present) as well as synchronic point of view (the rural in contrast to the urban/metropolitan) and investigate cultures of rural America represented in fiction (e.g. in the works of Zora Neale Hurston and Tillie Olsen), music (e.g. country music), and film and television (e.g. Little House on the Prairie). Different notions of rural America as “wilderness,” “garden,” “frontier,” as mythic “heartland”, precarious “borderland” or postindustrial “wasteland” reverberate in all of these texts and may have us consider the rural as both, if to varying degrees, mainstream and marginal to US national discourses. Our seminar readings will also address gender and race relations, economic structures as well as religion from a sociological and cultural studies perspective.
- Recommended literature
- Please purchase:
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Tillie Olsen, Yonnondio: From the Thirties Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone
- Additional information
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2012/2013:
- Amerikanistik, Modul 9
- Amerikanistik, Modul A
- Department: Chair of American Studies
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