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North American Studies: Culture and Literature (Master of Arts) >>
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HS Contemporary American Authors: The Fiction of Stewart O'Nan (AE_HSONan)- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Heike Paul
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 12:15 - 13:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das HS Literature kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
• L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature"
• BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Literature" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
• BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
• MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Mastermodul 5,8
• MA The Americas / Las Américas: Modul 3b,4
• MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs
• MA Literaturstudien interkulturell und intermedial
- Contents
- This seminar is a one-author course that requires a substantial amount of reading. We will discuss the multi-facetted oeuvre of the contemporary American author Stewart O'Nan - his novels and short stories - and examine his writings with regard to their aesthetics and politics: How can we categorize them along the lines of genre and literary style? How do they portray American history (its wars and other crises) and contemporary US society (in particular its kinship and family structures and the rural/urban divide). In assessing the cultural work of O'Nan's writings we will contextualize him as a contemporary author whose work speaks to many issues of current concern in our field.
- Recommended literature
- Please purchase and read the following novels:
A Prayer for the Dying
Wish You Were Here
Songs for the Missing
The Good Wife
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 11.2.2019, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 13.4.2019, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2019:
- Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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