230215 American Short Stories (S) (WiSe 2024/2025)

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This course covers a variety of US-American short stories from different literary periods, ranging from Gothic Literature to Postmodernism. Studying these significant narratives helps us decipher the dialogue between individual and national discourses of identity processes at work here. Furthermore, they provide useful material for those interested in the cultural and historical complexity of the United States. Therefore, students will be given the opportunity to extend and consolidate their analysis skills in literary studies through regular writing tasks, group discussions and close readings of the texts. They will practice how to appropriately work with literary/cultural theory in narrative analysis and eventually how to develop a coherent and stylistically appropriate argument in this field of studies.

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23-ANG-M-HM3 Main Module 3: NorthAmerican Literatures and the Processes of Culture Hauptmodul 3: NorthAmerican Literatures and the Processes of Culture HM 3.1 NorthAmerican Literatures in Context Study requirement
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23-IAS-M-IAS4 North American Literature and the Processes of Culture North American Literature and the Processes of Culture "Literary Theory" oder "Cultural Theory" Study requirement
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Cultural and Literary Contact in the U.S.A. I Study requirement
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Cultural and Literary Contact in the U.S.A. II Study requirement
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23-IAS-M-IAS6 Advanced Studies of Literatures and Cultures of the Americas / Estudios avanzados de literaturas y culturas de las Américas Advanced Studies of Literatures and Cultures of the Americas / Estudios avanzados de literaturas y culturas de las Américas NorthAmerican Literatures in Context Study requirement
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23-LIT-M-LitAM4 Advanced Module II: Philological Specialisation in American Language and Literature Aufbau-Modul II: Fachphilologische Vertiefung Amerikanistik Lehrveranstaltung 1 Study requirement
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Lehrveranstaltung 3 Graded examination
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23-LIT-M-LitINT Intensification Course Intensivierung Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 1 Study requirement
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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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