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Root number
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489661 |
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Semester
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HS2024 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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English Languages and Literatures |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
Antisemitism and/in American Literature (FM and FS BA Seminar: Literature and Other Media) |
| Description |
The current resurgence of antisemitism necessitates a reflection on its origins and manifestations in order to expose its pervasiveness and to safeguard democratic and cultural values. In this seminar, we will analyze American literary texts and films which either engage thematically with antisemitism or are (sometimes oblique) articulations of antisemitic sentiments. Approaching the subject from a historical perspective, we will seek to scrutinize literary and cinematic texts from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the first decade of the new millennium which, more or less openly, participate in different discursive configurations of antisemitism.
Required Reading: thorough seminar preparation of all texts is mandatory.
Hobson and Roth are compulsory reading for all students; in acknowledgement of the overall reading load, students must additionally choose to read any one of Wallace, Donnelly, and Norris, but they need to confer with the course convenor which of these they will read and prepare for discussion during the seminar so that all three texts are sufficiently covered. If students wish to read two or all of the latter, they are of course welcome to do so.
Literary texts:
Lewis Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880; PDF provided).
Edmund Boisgilbert (i.e., Ignatius Donnelly), Caesar’s Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (1890; PDF provided).
Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899; PDF provided).
Laura Z. Hobson, Gentleman’s Agreement (1947; PDF provided).
Philip Roth, The Plot against America (2004).
Films:
Erich von Stroheim (dir.), Greed (1924; silent film adaptation of McTeague; on ILIAS).
Fred Niblo (dir.), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925; on ILIAS).
Elia Kazan (dir.), Gentleman’s Agreement (1947).
William Wyler (dir.), Ben-Hur (1959). |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Axel Stähler, Institute of English Languages and Literatures ✉
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ECTS
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4 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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passed/failed |
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| Dates |
Monday 14:15-16:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F -122, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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