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120033 PS Literature: Proseminar = Introductory Seminar (2010S)

"Passionate Pilgrims" - American Expatriates in Europe

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

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 We 10.02.2010 06:00 to We 17.02.2010 23:59
Registration is open from Sa 20.02.2010 10:00 to Th 04.03.2010 16:00
Deregistration possible until We 31.03.2010 23:59

Details

max. 24 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Bettina Thurner

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Friday 19.03. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 26.03. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 16.04. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 23.04. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 30.04. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 07.05. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 14.05. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 21.05. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 28.05. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 04.06. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 11.06. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 18.06. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Friday 25.06. 15:00 - 17:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this introductory literary seminar we will deal with American writers living and writing in Europe, especially during the 1920ies. Their transatlantic sojourns were mainly a reaction to the writers’ frustration with their native country and their disillusionment with the modern world. Those who had returned to the States from WWI found themselves exiles in their own country: “There is no there there.” (G. Stein) Thus many writers moved to Europe; as the cultural center of the world Paris was particularly appealing.
Gertrude Stein considered these uprooted writers a new literary generation, calling them “the lost generation.” Far from divesting themselves of their American identities, these pilgrims found in Europe a place to write and a place to write about.
We will try to trace their efforts to establish themselves by looking at texts by authors such as Gertrude Stein, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes and others.

Assessment and permitted materials

Research paper and oral presentation, classroom discussion, final written exam.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Research-based analysis of selected texts.

Examination topics

Interactive introductory seminar.

Reading list

Reader. Full texts will be available at Facultas on campus: Hemingway: A Moveable Feast, The Sun also Rises, Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night.

Association in the course directory

Diplom 343, UF 344, BA 612
LI 12-0106, SP-Code 304, 701 / BA11

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