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120058 PS Literature: Proseminar = Introductory Seminar (2010S)

Literary Massachusetts

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

Diese LVA gilt für das Masterstudium Anglophone Literatures and Cultures 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

Michael Draxlbauer

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Wednesday 10.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 17.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 24.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 14.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 21.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 28.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 05.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 12.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 19.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 26.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 02.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 09.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 16.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 23.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
Wednesday 30.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Nonconformism, Individualism, Transcendentalism; Boston, Harvard, Salem, Concord: isms and places that are pivotal in U.S. history and cultural geography. Massachusetts, the paradigmatic "New England" colony and U.S. state, where the "Puritans" planned their "city upon a hill", where the American War of Independence started, where literature flourished into what is known as the American Renaissance . . .
In the first weeks of this course we will discuss "non-fictional" (?) texts by William Bradford, John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau ... setting the stage for our detailed analyses of "Literary Massachusetts" highlights: poems by Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson and Robert Lowell, tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Hawthorne's romance The Scarlet Letter, and Arthur Miller's drama The Crucible.

Assessment and permitted materials

Participation in class, short Cultural Studies assignments, proper term paper (essay and presentation in class), final written exam on material covered.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Research-based analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction, with an added Cultural Studies approach.

Examination topics

Interactive discussion of specific literary and cultural topics.

Reading list

Association in the course directory

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

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