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Root number
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489753 |
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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 |
The North American Short Story (FS BA Seminar Literature) |
| Description |
This seminar will explore the North American (Canadian and American) short story from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. This chronological approach will allow us to make sense of the short story as a genre and its developments while strengthening our understanding of literary periods. We will begin with early writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, and Mavis Gallant and conclude with contemporary writers such as Teju Cole, Ken Liu, and Alice Munro. During this ‘literary journey,’ we will examine romantic, realist, naturalist, modernist, postmodernist, and contemporary elements and themes within the short stories while constantly paying attention to the historical and cultural contexts from which the authors wrote. Thematic blocks centered around cultural sustainability will enable us to dive into a more diverse corpus and enable a critical understanding and discussion of the canon formation process. In addition, secondary texts covering diverse theoretical and methodological approaches (entailing, amongst many others, feminist, queer, postcolonial, intermedial, and intersectional theories) will further enhance our critical understanding of the short stories.
Required Reading: All texts will be provided as PDF scans on Ilias. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Malaika Sutter, Institute of English Languages and Literatures, American Studies ✉
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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 |
Thursday 12:15-14:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F -112, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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