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North American Studies: Culture and Literature (Master of Arts) >>
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VL American Literary and Cultural History, 20th Century (AE_VLAm20)- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Antje Kley
- Details
- Vorlesung
2 cred.h
LAFV, Magister, Master, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 12:15 - 13:45, KH 1.012; single appointment on 27.6.2019 14:00 - 16:00, KH 0.020; single appointment on 4.7.2019 14:00 - 16:00, KH 1.012
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Die VL kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Optionsmodul Literature" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature)
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul B" Literature oder Culture
MA North American Studies
Mastermodul 6: "Überblicksmodul": VL plus Independent Study
Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
- Contents
- One cannot fully appreciate the complexity of modern literature without considering the work of American writers. Radical innovators such as William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, or Ernest Hemingway have shaped our understanding of modern literature. Furthermore, postmodern American authors like Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Paul Auster, or Bret Easton Ellis have contributed to our understanding of contemporary western societies. African American writers and intellectuals such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison have offered radically new perspectives on what it means to live in twentieth-century America. This lecture will offer an overview of twentieth-century American literature in its cultural and historical contexts. Moreover, it will show how the field of American literary studies reacted to the dramatic and far-reaching changes of U.S. literature.
- Recommended literature
- Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature (New York: Penguin, 1992) (Part IV, “Modernism in the American Grain”).
Richard Gray, “Making It New: The Emergence of Modern American Literature,” in: Gray, A History of American Literature (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), 336-552.
- Additional information
- Expected participants: 40
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 18.3.2019, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 13.4.2019, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2019:
- North America: Politics and Society (AM7)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Schwerpunktmodul Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften I (KuK I)
- Überblicksmodul (Master Modul 6)
- Department: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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