Termine im WS 2012/13 - Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität ...
Termine im WS 2012/13 - Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität ...
Termine im WS 2012/13 - Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität ...
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CULTURAL STUDIES (USA)<br />
Vorlesung<br />
--- --- Freitag<br />
American Literature and Culture: Beginnings to Civil War, 2/2,5 CP<br />
2 st. mo 14-16 HGB 10<br />
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 648)<br />
This is the first part of a three-part lecture series that introduces to <strong>im</strong>portant<br />
developments of US-American literature as part and expression of the shaping of US-<br />
American culture. References to visual and popular art are meant to broaden the<br />
general perspective. While well-established periods and movements like Early<br />
American Literature and the American Renaissance will be covered, the lecture<br />
series will also show how these periods and movements came to be canonized and<br />
what other literary developments were thereby influenced, excluded, and/or<br />
devaluated.<br />
Each part of the lecture cycle can be attended independently of the other parts.<br />
Texts: will be made available on Blackboard<br />
Credit requirements: regular attendance and written test.<br />
<strong>Seminar</strong>e<br />
--- --- Dickel<br />
The Harlem Renaissance, 4 CP<br />
2 st. do 8.30-10 GABF 04/4<strong>13</strong> Süd<br />
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 651)<br />
The term “Harlem Renaissance” refers to the 1920s and 30s, when, after the great<br />
migration, many African Americans formed communities in the northern metropolises<br />
in which art and literature flourished in an unprecedented way. In their texts, many