Titel:
American Studies: Areas, Approaches, Methods

Fakultät:
Geisteswissenschaften

Semester:
Winter 2018

VeranstalterIn:
Dr. Elena Furlanetto

Termin:
Di., 14:00-16:00 Uhr

Ort:
R12 T04 E96

Studiengang:
Anglistik

Zielgruppe:

Kommentar:
What is American Studies? How can we define the discipline that you have chosen as your field of studies? What are the most important questions animating our field? This course will help you to frame tentative answers for these questions. It provides an overview of some of the most important and influential
- areas of American Studies (e.g. early America, Enlightenment, industrialization, globalization)
- approaches to the field of U.S. American literature, culture and media (e.g. New Criticism, Myth and Symbol School, ideology critique, new historicism, transnationalism)
- methods and theories employed in the study of North American literary and cultural production (e.g. theorizing on race, class and gender; the writing back paradigm; methods for the study of heteroglossia)