This lecture will provide a survey of American literature from the colonial period to the present. The lecture will help students place literary texts in their historical and cultural contexts and understand the broad contours of the development of American literary tradition.* Primary texts are selected to reflect processes of canon-building as well as the diversity of American literary production.
Lectures on background and context will be complemented by discussions of passages from prose, poetry, and drama (synchronous) and tasks for independent study (asynchronous), so students can not only test but also apply their newly gained understanding of American literary history.
*(in the English language)
- Dozent/in: Luise Florentine Flehmer
- Dozent/in: Katrin Horn
- Dozent/in: Caroline Schmidt