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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie (Phil) >>
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Proseminar: Death and Mourning in America- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gessner
- Angaben
- Proseminar
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Mo 12:15 - 13:45, C 301
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Das PS Culture gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies (neu): Zwischenmodul II Culture (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsmodul)
Das PS Literature gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies (neu): Zwischenmodul II Culture (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsmodul)
BA American Studies (neu): Zwischenmodul II Economics, Linguistics, History, Geography, Literature/Culture
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literature)
Lehramt Englisch an Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen (neu): Zwischenmodul L-UF Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Elementarmodul Literature)
- Inhalt
- This proseminar examines the changing cultural understandings of death, dying, and mourning in North America by analyzing different media ranging from the early colonial period until the twenty-first century. The meaning of death is open-ended: the Thanatology Association defines “dying” as “the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual experience of facing death.” Death yields its own culture and has its own cultural expressions, such as temporary and permanent memorials, funeral practices and cemeteries, dark tourism, video tributes to the dead, and death-related rituals, films, and TV-shows. American notions of steady progress, a healthy body as the foundation of a healthy nation, and an “American optimism” are just a few of the ideological convictions that may be threatened by the reality of death. American writers like Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Edgar Allen Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman, among many others, dealt forthrightly with the meaning of death in their work. The advent of modernity and the incomprehensible scale of death during the American Civil War and the two World Wars influenced the representation of death from the late nineteenth century onwards. The new technology of photography also depicted the dead subject, from Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady’s Civil War photos, to lynching and post-mortem photography. Death brutally engaged the American public on and after September 11, 2001 when 2,996 people died in the terrorist attacks. Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Richard Drew’s iconic photograph of the Falling Man are but two expressions of a post-9/11 culture of death. Course material: will be announced and partially available on StudOn. Course requirements: in-class participation, oral presentation. Credit requirement: an 10 to 15-page research paper in English.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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