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123030 VO Literature Survey 2 (2017W)

Anglophone North American Literatures since 1492

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Failed lecture registration / Moodle access:

Students who still miss prerequisites for this lecture (your current registration status is "angelegt" or "wiederaufgenommen") will be registered by our SSS staff to provide full access to Moodle. Registration lists will be checked at least once a week. There is no need to contact the SSS and/or lecturer(s) personally.
Please note: Students do need to have completed all curricular prerequisites before they can take the corresponding exam (separate registration necessary).
Moodle

Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

last session=final exam (1st of 4 sittings)

  • Monday 09.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 16.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 23.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 30.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 06.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 13.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 20.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 27.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 04.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 11.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 08.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 15.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Monday 22.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

- students have acquired a general overview of Anglophone literatures in North America from a diachronic perspective
- students can differentiate between different literary genres in terms of their development
- students can reflect critically about canon formation

Contents: Native American oral literature; Colonial American Literatures (from Columbus to the Puritans); Writing during the Revolution; the early Republic; Antebellum American Literatures; The Civil War and Reconstruction; the late 19th century; modernism; postmodernism; Canadian literature, Caribbean literature; contemporary trends.
Including one film session, one guest lecture on Asian American Literatures
Methods: Lecture course (with interactive elements)

Assessment and permitted materials

Final written test covering the required reading and the topics and materials discussed in the individual lectures

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Assessment will be based on the score achieved in the final written test.
Please note: This lecture course will be accompanied by a tutorial, which serves as a forum for the in-depth analysis and revision of key concepts, topics, and readings introduced and covered in the lectures. Please check the announcement on the Moodle platform at the beginning of term of details!

Examination topics

Participants are expected to read, and critically engage with, all set texts on the reading list. The final written test will cover the required reading and the topics and materials discussed in the lectures.

Reading list

novels - please obtain (preordered at Facultas bookstore, 10% off in October for students):
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) (Oxford World's Classics ed.)
- Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
all shorter texts will be available on Moodle and in a reader (also available at Facultas by session 1)

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, EC 125, EC 126; BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 3.3.3-303, BA08.2; Literaturgeschichte / Survey 2 - EC; BEd Modul 10
Lehrinhalt: 12-3030

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