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HS American Renaissance- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Andrew Gross
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h
LAFV, Magister, Master, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 10:15 - 11:45, C 303
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das HS Literature gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Modul 4 & 5 (jeweils als Aufbaumodul mit begleitender Übung), und Module 7 & 8 (jeweils als Vertiefungsmodul mit begleitender Independent Study Group) MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Modul 8 (mit begleitender Independent Study Group) & Modul 9 BA English and American Studies / BA American Studies: Hauptmodul A Literature mit begleitender Independent Study Group (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
- Contents
- This course will consider some of the classic authors of the American Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, and Douglass. The emphasis will be on Emerson as the thinker that other writers had to come to terms with. His insistence that each individual has the ability, even the moral obligation, to define his own relation to nature will be the prism through which we consider Thoreau’s retreat to Walden Pond, Fuller’s vindication of the rights of women, Hawthorne’s investigation of personal guilt, Melville’s encyclopedic depiction of whale hunting, Whitman’s expansive democratic poetics, Dickinson’s intense introspection, and Douglass’ struggle for personal freedom and the abolition of slavery. This course will require a lot of reading, but it will provide students with a firm foothold in the first body of literature to define itself as self-consciously American.
- Recommended literature
- Required reading:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “American Scholar” (1837), “Self-Reliance” (1841), “Experience” (1844); Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854); Margaret Fuller, “The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women” (1843); Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850); Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851); Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, selected poems; Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)
Students are encouraged to read Moby-Dick before the beginning of the semester.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 30
Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2013/2014:
- Amerikanistik, Modul 8 A
- Amerikanistik, Modul 9 A
- Department: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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