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Institut für Amerikastudien Institut für Amerikastudien

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christian Quendler Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Christian Quendler, +43 512 507 4177

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Filmic Fiction: American Literature in the Age of Cinema, TV and Video

PS 2

Block

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Englisch

This course offers a survey of twentieth-century literary fiction from an intermedial perspective. It focuses on modernist and post-modernist modes of writing that imitate filmic techniques such as ‘overlapping’ and ‘close up’ or draw on elements of audiovisual mass media such as ‘newsreel,’ ‘camera-eye’ and ‘videotape.’ We will analyze ‘cinematic’ narrative and stylistic devices in short stories, short novels, and extracts of novels by authors like Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Nathaniel West, Robert Coover, and many more. We will discuss differences and similarities between fiction film and literary fiction as well as explore historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts that inspired authors to use filmic techniques. Objectives: to become familiar with major twentieth-century American novelists, the literary movements of modernism and post-modernism as well as basic concepts in intermedia studies; to achieve a proficiency in the use of narratological tools and to develop interpretive skills in analytical reading and research.

Introductory lecture input, oral presentations, text analyses and discussions

Active participation, oral presentation, exam, and research paper (10-15 pages)

BEGINN Freitag, 2. März 07. Students must have passed the "Introduction to American Literature and Culture" to attend this course
Beginn: 2.3.2007

Fr 23.03. 13.00-15.00 und 16.00-18.00, 40332