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Departments >> Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology >> Department Anglistik/Amerikanistik und Romanistik >> Department of English and American Studies >> Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley) >>

  American Naturalism

Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Ulf Schulenberg

Details
Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 10:15 - 11:45, 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: "Aufbaumodul Literary Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs

  • MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs

Das HS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:

  • BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Culture" 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 4: "Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs

  • MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs

Contents
The world is a very bad place, and you’re doomed anyway. This is the – admittedly somewhat simplified - message of naturalist texts. As a radicalized or scientized realism, naturalism was influenced by Social Darwinism, the process of industrialization, an increasingly positivistic and materialistic world view, as well as by Zola’s idea of the “bête humaine”. In this seminar, we will analyze the characteristics of this fascinating literary period. We will clarify the differences between realism and naturalism, and we will discuss to what degree naturalism prepared the ground for aesthetic modernism. We will read the following texts:
  • Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

  • Frank Norris, McTeague

  • Jack London, The Sea Wolf

Recommended literature
  • Donald Pizer, Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. Urbana: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.
  • Keith Newlin (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism. New York: Oxford UP, 2011.

Additional information
Expected participants: 30
Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen

Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
Startsemester SS 2017:
Amerikanistik, Modul C (M 4)
Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
North American Studies (AM3b)

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