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HS The Canadian West in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (AE_HSCWST)- Lecturer
- Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, compulsory attendance, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 16:00 - 18:00, C 601
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Zugehörigkeit zu den Modulen:
BA English and American Studies (neu): Hauptmodul A. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) MA North American Studies: Culture and Literature (5) Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (8) Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4 MA Literaturstudien – interdisziplinär: Modul 4
- Contents
- The North American West as a geographical space has become mythologized; its tropes of cultural contact, settlement and conquest, as well as masculinities and whiteness prevail well into present-day popular culture and long normalized images of North America. In this class, we look at the West through the lens of Canadian Studies. We will explore the Canadian West through the workings of the US-American Western motifs of the cowboy, the frontier, and magnificent landscapes in reading across literary and media genres, including the novel, creative nonfiction, and cowboy poetry, as well as the Western movie, at Canadian attempts at locating its own Canadian West—East of the Rocky Mountains, but far from the political center of Ottawa, and North of the Medicine Line that separates Canada from its Southern neighbor.
- Recommended literature
- Please purchase:
Stegner, Wallace. Wolf Willow (Penguin)
Bowering, George. Caprice. Vancouver: New Star, 2010.Make sure you order them in time since Caprice is hard to get!
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 12.2.2018, 19:00 and lasts till Saturday, 31.3.2018, 23:59 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2018:
- Amerikanistik, Modul B (Literaturwissenschaft) (M 4)
- 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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