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HS American Naturalism
The world is a very bad place, and you’re doomed anyway. This is the – admittedly somewhat simplified - message of naturalist texts. As a radicalized or scientized realism, naturalism was influenced by Social Darwinism, the process of industrialization, an…
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HS American Noir
Murder, psychosis, paranoia, violence, greed, sexual perversion, cool killers, sexy femmes fatales, and hardboiled detectives – American noir paints a truly different picture of the US. Mostly associated with crime fiction, American noir calls attention to…
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HS Black Modernism
For many decades, American modernism was associated with authors such as Faulkner, Hemingway, and Dos Passos. Black writers played only a minor role. This changed in the 1960s and 1970s. In this seminar, we will seek to elucidate the characteristics of bla…
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HS Bohemia, Hipsterism, and American Literature
Every decent, and sane, person ought to hate the hipster. The term “hipster” has an almost exclusively negative connotation. At the same time, “hipster” is a truly protean and amorphous term. The same can be said about the term “bohemia”. Does it only refe…
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HS Postmodern American Fiction
American literature radically changed its nature after the 1960s. Literary texts became self-reflective (or metafictional), playful, and ironic. Moreover, the anti-mimetic gesture, already typical of modern literature, became even more radical. Regarding t…
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HS Violence and American Literature
Violence has been an integral part of American history and culture from the Middle Passage to the Columbine shooting and Donald Trump’s rhetoric. In this seminar, we will analyze different forms of violence; for instance, physical violence, racial violence…
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VL American Literary and Cultural History, 19th Century (SS 2017)
In the nineteenth century, the multilayered complexity of American literature became increasingly obvious. In his influential Studies in Classic American Literature, D.H. Lawrence even advanced the argument that the real beginning of American literature wa…
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VL North American Literary Studies (WS 2017/18)
This lecture gives an overview of the development of literary studies in the US from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Elucidating the changes as far as the understanding of American literature and the function of literary studies are co…
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VL North American Literary Studies WS 16/17
This lecture gives an overview of the development of literary studies in the US from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Elucidating the changes as far as the understanding of American literature and the function of literary studies are co…
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