gb - Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität Bochum

CULTURAL STUDIES (USA)
Vorlesung
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American Literature and Culture: From the Civil War to World War II, 2/2,5 CP
2 st. mo 14-16 HGB 10
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 645)
This is the second part of a three-part lecture series that introduces important
developments of US-American literature as part and expression of the shaping of US
American culture. Occasional references to visual and popular art are meant to
broaden the general perspective. While well-established periods and movements like
Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism will be covered, the lecture series will also
show how these periods and movements came to be canonized and what other
developments in literature and art were thereby influenced, excluded, and/or
devalued. Shorts stories, poems, and excerpts from longer texts will be supplied on
Blackboard.
Each part of the lecture cycle can be attended independently of the other parts.
Assessment/requirements: regular attendance, reading, written end-of-term test.