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19th Century Poetry: Whitman and Dickinson- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Andrew Gross
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
LAFV, Magister, Master, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 10:15 - 11:45, C 304, C 303
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das HS "19th Century Poetry" kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature" (71501): Hausarbeit (7 ECTS) BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul A Literature" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (69401): Hausarbeit (10 ECTS) (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) BA American Studies: "Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture" mit begleitender Independent Study Group (69201): Hausarbeit (10 ECTS) (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: "Aufbaumodul 5" mit begleitendem Kurs (3840): Hausarbeit & Thesenpapier(10 ECTS) MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: "Vertiefungsmodul 8" begleitender Independent Study (3870): Hausarbeit & wissenschaftlicher Vortrag (10 ECTS)
- Contents
- In this course we will concentrate on the two most significant American poets of the nineteenth century, taking the time to subject their poems to the scrutiny of close readings. We will also explore how contemporary cultural and literary studies have reframed Whitman and Dickinson scholarship, shifting the focus from questions of form, tradition,and influence to issues of gender, ethnicity, politics, and geography. We will compare the poets’ attitudes towards Manifest Destiny, examine their responses to the Civil War and slave rebellions, and interrogate their positions on sexuality, democracy, feminism, abolitionism, and colonialism. Of central concern will be the way Whitman’s grand poetic vistas and Dickinson’s claustrophobic interiors map the overlapping—and often conflicting—spaces of nineteenth-century, expansionist America.
- Recommended literature
- Required Texts:
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (either the Norton or the Library of America version) Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition (ed. R.W. Franklin), Harvard, 1999.
Recommended Texts:
The Emily Dickinson Handbook (ed. G. Grabher, et. al.), U Mass P, 1998. The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman (ed. E. Greenspan), Cambridge UP, 1995. Breaking Bounds (ed.B. Erkkila & J. Grossman), Oxford UP, 1996. Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose (ed. Justin Kaplan), Library of America, 1982. Open Me Carefully (ed. E. L. Hart & M. N. Smith), Paris Press, 1998.
- Additional information
- Expected participants: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2014:
- Amerikanistik, Modul A
- Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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