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123427 SE Literary & Cultural Studies Seminar / BA Paper / MA American/North American Lit./Studies (2016S)

Chicago Literature & Culture (19.-21.Jh.)

11.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work

From prairie settlement in the early 19th to boomtown metropolis in the course of the 20th century, Chicago's rich literary and cultural history has reflected changing concepts of urbanity and society in the U.S. Although by no means exhaustive in terms of subject matter and literary texts, this course aims at looking at the 'windy city'; from a diachronic perspective, focusing on decisive moments in Chicago literature and culture from the late 19th century to the 21st: the Haymarket Riots (1886) and labor activism, Jane Addams' Hull House and Progressive Era Chicago, the Columbian World Exposition (1903), the Great Migration of African Americans from the South and the development of the Blues and the Chicago Renaissance, the Prohibition era, and the development of a multiethnic urban literature.
Moodle

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).

Details

max. 20 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

ATTN: Course begins at 2:30 and ends at 4:00!
Includes a final 1-day symposium in the last week of June (exact day tba) on Black Music in Chicago and to trace connections between Jazz in Chicago and Vienna, with a group of students from Graz and guest lectures by Nassim Balestrini (U Graz) and Benjamin Fagan (Auburn Univ., Alabama, US) as well as (financing pending) a voluntary photography workshop with Chicago music photographer Elliot Mandel (http://www.elliotmandelphoto.com/)

  • Wednesday 09.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 16.03. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 06.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 13.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 20.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 27.04. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 04.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 11.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 18.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 25.05. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 01.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 08.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 15.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 22.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
    Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Wednesday 29.06. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The course will be project-oriented as students will develop their own research projects for in-class presentation and the seminar paper.
The seminar's aim is to make students understand urban development and concepts of urbanity in a U.S. context, to develop analytical skills regarding urban literary writing of various periods and genres and by different ethnicities (including white), and to develop research topics and questions on their own (preparation for BA/MA/MEd Theses).
Methods: lecture, pair work & group work, class discussions

Assessment and permitted materials

presentation 25%
active class participation (incl. written assignments) 25%
Seminar paper 50%

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make (1951)
Aleksander Hemon, Nowhere Man (Bosnian immigrant novel, 2002)
All available from Facultas
Other and shorter literary and secondary texts will be made available through Moodle:
poems by Carl Sandburg (Chicago Poems, 1916) and Edgar Lee Masters ("The White City")
Jane Addams, 20 Years at Hull House
poems by Gwendolyn Brooks (Bronzeville poet)
Lorraine Hansberry, "A Raisin in the Sun" (African American drama)
Saul Bellow, "Looking for Mr. Green" (Jewish-American, short story)

Chiraq (film, dir. Spike Lee) - night at the movies

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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