230649 Literature from Chicagoland (S) (WiSe 2015/2016)
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This seminar investigates the Chicago cityscape construed in a selection of 20th century fictional works from/set in Chicago. Each of them presents the megacity in a different way, sometimes, for instance, setting the focus on segregation and the civil rights struggle, as in Lorraine Hansberry's famous play "A Raisin in the Sun", moral and gender boundaries, as in Theodore Dreiser’s “Sister Carrie”, or on the life of immigrants in the world's formerly largest meatpacking industry, as in Upton Sinclair's famous novel "The Jungle". With particular focus on these developments and the literary Chicago Renaissance, we will discuss how "Chicago the Beautiful" – an image formed by the 1893 World's Fair – is criticized and de-constructed in the narrative texts, shedding light upon the power that stories hold for the construction of a city – real and imagined.
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Students will have to read:
-Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" (1900) (there are free audiobooks available on librivox.org); to be read by 17 Dec. 2015.
-Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" (1906); to be read by 14 Jan. 2016.
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| Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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| every two weeks | Do | 16-20 | V5-148 | 19.10.2015-12.02.2016
not on: 10/22/15 / 12/31/15 |
Subject assignments
| Module | Course | Requirements | |
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| 23-ANG-M-AngGM2 Grundmodul 2: Contact Zones and Intercultural Studies | GM 2.3 Cultural and Literary Contact in the USA | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 23-ANG-M-HM3 Hauptmodul 3: NorthAmerican Literatures and the Processes of Culture | HM 3.1 NorthAmerican Literatures in Context | Study requirement
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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 23-IAS-M-IAS4 North American Literature and the Processes of Culture | 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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| - | Graded examination | Student information | |
| 23-IAS-M-IAS6 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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| - | Graded examination | Student information |
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Students will have to read:
-Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" (1900) (there are free audiobooks available on librivox.org); to be read by 17 Dec. 2015.
-Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" (1906); to be read by 14 Jan. 2016.
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