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120114 VO Literatures in English (2010S)

"20th-Century Authors from the American South"

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Diese LVA gilt für die Masterstudien Englisch nach UG2002, das Diplomstudium (UniStG) und das Lehramt UF Englisch (UniStG).

Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 10.03. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 17.03. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 24.03. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 14.04. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 21.04. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 28.04. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 05.05. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 12.05. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 19.05. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 26.05. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 02.06. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 09.06. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 16.06. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Wednesday 23.06. 11:00 - 13:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The lecture course will survey the rich literary heritage of the American South, which has shown remarkable literary fertility since the 1920s. This course will be team-taught by Professor Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Visiting Professor Robert Brinkmeyer, a distinguished expert on Southern literature and culture, who is currently Director of Research at the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, an institution with which we are currently negotiating an agreement of cooperation and academic exchanges.
The course will consider the paradox of the social and economic backwardness and the exceptional cultural productivity of states like Mississippi and Georgia, and will reflect on the resources which made a cultural flowering possible. Among the authors to be considered are William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Carson Mc Cullers, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Cormac McCarthy, James Dickey and Bobbie Ann Mason. We will also look at more recent texts, exploring transformations of Southern literature in postmodern culture.
We shall also view film versions of fictional texts such as Dickey's Deliverance.

Assessment and permitted materials

Written final test.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

To make students familiar with the literary and cultural manifestations of a relatively homogenous region of the United States which since the late 1920s showed remarkable creative potential.

Examination topics

Lecture course supported by films and other visual material and popular music from the region. Students are encouraged to actively participate in discussions.

Reading list

Students are expected to purchase a Reader containing various short stories and acquire the following novels: Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding, Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter, Cormac McCarthy, Child of God, and Walker Percy Lancelot.

Association in the course directory

Diplom 343, UF 344, MA 812, MA 844
LI 12-0115, SP-Code 321, 326/328, 336/338, 721-723 / M01

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