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120081 PS Literature: Introductory Seminar (304) (2009S)

Dialogues and Contestations in the 'Promised Land' - (Non)-Comformity in Canadian and US -American Jewish Writing

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 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
Deregistration possible until Tu 31.03.2009 23:59

Details

max. 24 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Eugen Banauch

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Thursday 19.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 26.03. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 02.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 23.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 30.04. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 07.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 14.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 28.05. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 04.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 18.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
Thursday 25.06. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In this course we will focus on constructions and notions of Jewishness in North American writing. The diaspora and the image of the wandering Jew have become productive paradigms in the 20th century in which displacement and alienation have become constitutive modes for identity formations. We will investigate strategies of constructions of Jewish identities, the differentiated employment of markers of isolation and community in the diaspora, and look at instances of deliberate deployment, appropriation and/or refusal of grand narratives such as the American dream, conceptions of Manifest Destiny, and Jewish (prophetic) traditions. An important focus will also be on voicing the unsayable, i.e. the problematic nature of art and writing about the Holocaust.
All texts are taken from the US-American and Canadian context of the 20th century: Aniza Yezierska's Bread Givers (1921), Ann Michael's Fugitive Pieces (1997), David Gow's play Cherry Docs (1998), Henry Kreisel's short story collection The Almost Meeting (1981), and poems by Emma Lazarus, Mary Antin, Jacob Glatstein, Eli Mandel, A.M. Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Irving Layton.

Assessment and permitted materials

class-participation, presentation, term paper (proseminar paper), final written exam

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Research-based analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction

Examination topics

Interactive Introductory Seminar

Reading list

Reader and reading list to be posted here: http://anglistik.univie.ac.at/staff/banauch/

Association in the course directory

304, 701, 1111

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