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123425 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA American/North American Lit./Studies (2017W)

People in motion - Wanderers, ramblers and gamblers in North American Fiction

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

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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 11.09.2017 00:00 to Th 21.09.2017 23:59
Deregistration possible until Tu 31.10.2017 23:59

Details

max. 18 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Eugen Banauch

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Thursday 12.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 19.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 09.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 16.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 23.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 30.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 07.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 14.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 11.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 18.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
Thursday 25.01. 10:00 - 12:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

“I’m a long way from my home”- wanderers, ramblers, gamblers, and hobos have frequently inhabited fictional worlds in US literature. This seminar is designed to look at texts that negotiate being on the road (or on a freight train, or raft down the Mississippi for that matter) as expressions of the continuous state of becoming and the fluidity of subject positions within and as constructions of America. We will look at the following texts (some in full, some in excerpts) which are all are taken from the North American context of the 19th and 20th century:
Thoreau’s “Walking”, Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road”, Mark Twain’s Huck Finn, Frederick J. Turner’s “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, Robert Frost, “The Road not Taken”, Woodie Guthrie’s Bound for Glory, Bob Dylan’s “Last Thoughts on Woodie Guthrie”, Walker Percy’s The Last Gentleman, Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Carolyn Cassidy’s Off the Road, Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider, Jacques Poulin’s Volkswagen Blues (in English translation).

Assessment and permitted materials

- term paper
- presentation
- participation in class

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The submission of a term paper and the presentation are minimum requirements.
Attendance is mandatory, the third absence (of a 90 minute unit) will result in a negative grade.

Examination topics

Reading list

Buy the following texts from Facultas, Hof 1 Altes AKH:
Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Jack Kerouac. On the Road.
Jaques Poulin. Volkswagen Blues.
Buy these three texts at Facultas AAKH, as we need to use the same editions. If you decide to work on Bound for Glory, The Last Gentleman or Off the Road for your oral and written paper, you should also buy the respective text at Facultas.

Association in the course directory

Studium: UF 344, BA 612, MA 844;
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-322, BA09.2, 10.2, MA5, MA6, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0406

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