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123250 AR Literature Course - American/North American Lit./Studies (2012S)
The Fiction of T. C. Boyle: "On Love, Death and Anything in Between"
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Advance Info:
T.C. Boyle will be on a lecture tour through Austria and Germany in May 2012. It is hoped that the author's tight time-table will enable him to accept the English Department's invitation to meet students in class and discuss his work with them.
Advance Info:
T.C. Boyle will be on a lecture tour through Austria and Germany in May 2012. It is hoped that the author's tight time-table will enable him to accept the English Department's invitation to meet students in class and discuss his work with them.
An/Abmeldung
Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Mo 20.02.2012 00:00 bis So 26.02.2012 23:59
- Anmeldung von Mi 29.02.2012 00:00 bis So 04.03.2012 23:59
- Abmeldung bis Sa 31.03.2012 23:59
Details
max. 24 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- Mittwoch 14.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 21.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 28.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 18.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 25.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 02.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 09.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 16.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 23.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 30.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 06.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 13.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 20.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Mittwoch 27.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
The course will focus on two novels ("A Friend of the Earth", 2000; and "The Tortilla Curtain", 1995) and on a choice of short stories by the celebrated American author and professor of creative writing Tom C. Boyle. The focus will be on texts dealing with "Love, Death and Anything in Between" (subtitle of Boyle's Collected Short Stories). More specifically, the focus will be on works addressing satirically or comically, in the author's unique, "carnivalesque" style, such serious concerns as displacement, illigal immigration, climatic change and other environmental issues, the vicissitudes of erotic love, the redemptive power of true love and charity, collision of cultures, the decline of moral and spiritual values in contemporary American (and by implication Western) society, and dystopian visions of the future.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Requirements: Regular attendance; active participation in all discussions in class; one presentation per participant (PPT, max.15 mins per speaker); final exam to be written in class (essay plus set of questions), which requires in-depth knowledge of all the primary texts and topics discussed during the semester.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Aims: To provide students with in-depth knowledge of the writings of T. C. Boyle and to familiarize them with a wide range of themes relevant to contemporary society; to advance students' knowledge of literary theory and practical skills in literary analysis, to enable students to meet the author in person and to talk with him about his work; to advance students' cross-cultural understanding and awareness of cultural difference.
Prüfungsstoff
Interactive, computer-aided teaching with students' PPT-presentations, combined with plenum discussions; communication and exchange of information will be facilitated by the use of the e-learning platform "Moodle".
Literatur
Texts:
Participants are requested to purchase a copy each of the novels "The Tortilla Curtain" and "A Friend of the Earth". - A "Reader" containing the short stories dealt with in class can be purchased at the Copy-Studio (Schwarzspanierstraße 10) from 12 March.
Participants are requested to purchase a copy each of the novels "The Tortilla Curtain" and "A Friend of the Earth". - A "Reader" containing the short stories dealt with in class can be purchased at the Copy-Studio (Schwarzspanierstraße 10) from 12 March.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, MA 844;
Code/Modul: Diplom 325, 326/328, 336/338, 721-723, UF 4.2.4-323, MA5, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-3250
Code/Modul: Diplom 325, 326/328, 336/338, 721-723, UF 4.2.4-323, MA5, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-3250
Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22