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123030 VO Literature Survey 2 (2023W)

North American Literatures: Critical Perspectives

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Moodle

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Details

Language: English

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Oct. 17: Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Heike Paul (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg): "The Lost Colony of Roanoke"
Due to an excursion, NO SESSION on Oct. 31
Jan. 30, 11:30-1:00: written exam (first sitting)

  • Tuesday 10.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 17.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 24.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 31.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 07.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 14.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 21.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 28.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 05.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 12.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 09.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 16.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03
  • Tuesday 23.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03

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Aims, contents and method of the course

SURVEY 2: NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURES: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
- 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.
Includes an expert guest lectures in Early American Studies by Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Heike Paul (Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Methods: Lecture course (with interactive elements, esp. text discussion)

Assessment and permitted materials

Final written test covering the required reading and the topics and materials discussed in the individual lectures
Multiple choice part (50%), essay part (50%)
In order to pass the exam, a minimum of 60% in each part has to be reached.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Assessment will be based on the score achieved in the final written test.
Multiple choice part (50%), essay part (50%)
In order to pass the exam, a minimum of 60% in each part has to be reached.
100-90%=1
89-80%=2
79-70%=3
69-60%=4
59-0%=5

Examination topics

Students 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 used and discussed in the lectures.

Reading list

3 novels - please obtain:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, /The Scarlet Letter/ (Oxford World's Classics ed.)
- Mark Twain, /The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/ (Oxford World's Classic ed.)
- Toni Morrison, /Beloved/
all shorter texts (poems, short stories, plays) will be available on Moodle

Association in the course directory

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

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