230584 Analyzing and Interpreting Literary Texts: US-American Literatures (S) (SoSe 2021)

This course will focus on U.S. American Literatures and introduces first-year students to the basics of literary studies – the tools of the trade, as it were. Participants will be taught the terms and methods of analysis and interpretation of texts in the three main literary genres, poetry, drama and narrative.
The seminar will be accompanied by a tutorial in which students have the chance to repeat, discuss and practice the methods taught in the seminar.

Literaturangaben

Reading recommendations:
• Culler, Jonathan D. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Reissued. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011 (an older version is available as an e-book in the university library).
• Meyer, Michael. English and American Literatures. Tübingen und Basel: Francke, 42011. (available as an e-book in the university library)
• Nünning, Vera, and Ansgar Nünning. An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature. Stuttgart: Klett-Lerntraining, 2015.