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123427 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA American/North American Lit./Studies (2016S)

Chicago Literature & Culture (19.-21.Jh.)

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

From prairie settlement in the early 19th to boomtown metropolis in the course of the 20th century, Chicago's rich literary and cultural history has reflected changing concepts of urbanity and society in the U.S. Although by no means exhaustive in terms of subject matter and literary texts, this course aims at looking at the 'windy city'; from a diachronic perspective, focusing on decisive moments in Chicago literature and culture from the late 19th century to the 21st: the Haymarket Riots (1886) and labor activism, Jane Addams' Hull House and Progressive Era Chicago, the Columbian World Exposition (1903), the Great Migration of African Americans from the South and the development of the Blues and the Chicago Renaissance, the Prohibition era, and the development of a multiethnic urban literature.
Moodle

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

ATTN: Course begins at 2:30 and ends at 4:00!
Includes a final 1-day symposium in the last week of June (exact day tba) on Black Music in Chicago and to trace connections between Jazz in Chicago and Vienna, with a group of students from Graz and guest lectures by Nassim Balestrini (U Graz) and Benjamin Fagan (Auburn Univ., Alabama, US) as well as (financing pending) a voluntary photography workshop with Chicago music photographer Elliot Mandel (http://www.elliotmandelphoto.com/)
ATTENDANCE OF THE SYMPOSIUM IS MANDATORY!

  • Mittwoch 09.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 16.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 06.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 13.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 20.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 27.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 04.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 11.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 18.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 25.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 01.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 08.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 15.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 22.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
    Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Mittwoch 29.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The course will be project-oriented as students will develop their own research projects for in-class presentation and the seminar paper.
The seminar's aim is to make students understand urban development and concepts of urbanity in a U.S. context, to develop analytical skills regarding urban literary writing of various periods and genres and by different ethnicities (including white), and to develop research topics and questions on their own (preparation for BA/MA/MEd Theses).
Methods: lecture, pair work & group work, class discussions

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

presentation 25%
active class participation (incl. written assignments) 25%
Seminar paper 50%

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make (1951)
Aleksander Hemon, Nowhere Man (Bosnian immigrant novel, 2002)
All available from Facultas
Other and shorter literary and secondary texts will be made available through Moodle:
poems by Carl Sandburg (Chicago Poems, 1916) and Edgar Lee Masters ("The White City")
Jane Addams, 20 Years at Hull House
poems by Gwendolyn Brooks (Bronzeville poet)
Lorraine Hansberry, "A Raisin in the Sun" (African American drama)
Saul Bellow, "Looking for Mr. Green" (Jewish-American, short story)
Chiraq (film, dir. Spike Lee) - night at the movies

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, MA 844;
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-322, BA09.2, 10.2, MA5, MA6, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0406

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33