Survey of American Literature 2: Civil War to Present
Vorlesung, 2 SWS
- Termin:
- Montag, 14:50 - 16:20 Uhr
- Beginn:
- 09.10.2017
- Ort:
- ABS/E04
Inhalt
This lecture will provide a survey of U.S.-American literary history from the Civil War to the present. Proceeding from a cultural perspective, it will discuss important themes, modes, and genres that characterize American literature from the mid-19th through the beginning of the 21st century, and the literary periods into which it has been organized (realism, modernism, postmodernism). In the course of this survey, we will explore the – partly very different, partly continuous – ways in which texts across these periods define ‘Americanness,’ in which they approach human nature and social differences, and the ideas about the role and operations of literature that they reflect.
Voraussetzungen
Kenntnisse der englischen Sprache
- Lehrende/Vortragende:
- Frau Prof. Dr. Katja Kanzler
- Nachweise:
- Teilnahmebestätigung, 1 Cr.
- Ansprechpartner:
- Frau Prof. Köhler
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