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PS Neorealism (AE_PSNEOR)- Lecturer
- Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
- Details
- Proseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 12:15 - 13:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Proseminar gehört zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II Literature BA American Studies: Zwischenmodul II Economics, Linguistics, History, Geography, Literature/Culture Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature Lehramt Englisch an Grund-, Haupt- und Realschulen: Zwischenmodul L-UF Literature
Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Erfolgreicher Abschluss der GOP
- Contents
- There is a broad consensus that literary realism in the US is not merely confined to a historical epoch at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century but that it has to be viewed as a recurring mode of writing throughout American literary history. In recent decades, the term “neo-realism” has been applied to contemporary American fiction in order to indicate that literature has moved away from postmodernist play and radical deconstruction (dominant in the 1960s and 70s) and that, instead, it has been invested in realist story-telling once again. In this seminar we will read mostly contemporary short stories and novels in order to conceptualize the “new” in contemporary neo-realism with regard to form and aesthetics, to situate literary texts in the larger cultural field, and to discuss theoretical approaches to realist fiction.
- Recommended literature
- Please buy:
Raymond Carver, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (1981)
Nathan Englander, What We Talk about When We Talk about Anne Frank (2012)
Stewart O’Nan, Last Night at the Lobster (2008)Short stories from the following volumes as well as additional material will be made available on StudOn:
Molly Antopol, The Un-Americans (2014)
Joyce Carol Oates, Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2015)
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 19.3.2018, 19:00 and lasts till Saturday, 31.3.2018, 23:59 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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