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120014 SE Literary Seminar (322) = Seminar Literaturwissenschaft / BA-Arbeit (2009S)
The Southernmost Place On Earth in American Literature
Continuous assessment of course work
Labels
Diese LVA gilt für das Bachelorstudium nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 16.02.2009 14:00 to Mo 23.02.2009 09:00
- Registration is open from We 25.02.2009 14:00 to We 04.03.2009 23:59
- Registration is open from Fr 06.03.2009 12:30 to Tu 10.03.2009 13:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.03.2009 23:59
Details
max. 18 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 10.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 17.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 24.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 31.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 21.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 28.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 05.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 12.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 19.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 26.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 09.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 16.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 23.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
- Tuesday 30.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Located in the Deep South, Mississippi in the first half of the twentieth century appeared paradoxically both as a bastion of reactionary political thought and practice and as a remarkably fertile cultural subregion of the South. While it exhibited many signs of backwardness and rigorously applied Jim Crow laws to ensure the complete segregation of races, its authors and artists achieved recognition with their avant-garde art in various media. Both fictional texts rooted in this conflicted area and music produced by black and later also white musicians were widely accepted also outside the region. As musicians joined the "Grand Migration", the mass exodus from the poor counties of the state helped make the blues and country music a prominent export article of the region. Modernist writers such as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer, Tennessee Williams and African Americans such as Margaret Walker were widely noted, and their rendition of the society of the Deep South fostered variants of a specific traditional image.
Assessment and permitted materials
seminar paper (23-25 pages), regular attendance, oral presentation, active class participation, submission of two written reports on preceding sessions, final written test
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
to familiarize students with the wide range of fictional representations of cultural life in Mississippi, including regional music and eating cultures.
Examination topics
seminar participants will present their research papers and a thorough discussion in class will be encouraged
Reading list
a Reader with selected texts can be acquired at Copy Studio from January 11 onwards. In addition two complete texts should be acquired at a book store on campus (Eudora Welty, Losing Battles and Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof).
Association in the course directory
322, 821, 722, 1121
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