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Institut für Amerikastudien Institut für Amerikastudien

Mag. Dr. Claudia Schwarz Mag. Dr. Claudia Schwarz

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American Literature: Lost and Found? The Early 20th Century in American Literature

PS 2

5

wöch.

semestral

Englisch

Much like our own time, the early 20th century was tumultuous, divisive, and noisy. Different movements existed next to each other and people were both desperate and hopeful for the future. This is reflected in the sentiment of the Lost Generation but also in the livelihood of the Roaring Twenties and the Harlem Renaissance. The course covers all literary genres in the time between the two World Wars, including works by e.g. Gertrude Stein, Scott F. Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, Eugene O’Neill, Lillian Hellman, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Lecture inputs, presentations, group discussions

Active class participation, reading and writing assignments, presentation, term paper (ca. 3000 words)

Selected primary and secondary sources will be made available on e-campus

Anmeldungsvoraussetzung/en im BA: positive Beurteilung der Pflichtmodule 3 und 16 Entspricht im Diplomstudium (343): PS2: American Literature Entspricht im Lehramtsstudium (344): PS2: American Literature
Beginn: 4.10.2010