230341 Make it new: American Romanticism and American Modernisms (S) (WiSe 2026/2027)
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- There is an obligatory excursion to the Martha Herford Museum, Saturday Oct 24 2026 from 11 am to 4 pm. We will visit the " Frank Gehry and the Los Angeles Cool exhibit " about the interrelation between art and architecture and the Feris Gallery of avant-garde arts at Martha Herford. The visit will be accompanied by a workshop. Students will be given tasks on our first meeting October 20.
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The seminar will start with a visit to the Martha Herford museum in Herford October 24, 2026. We will take a look at the exhibition Frank Gehry and the Los Angeles Cool. !!!!
The seminar will also include an excursion to the exhibition Along the Color Line: Traces of a Transatlantic Modernism at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne (either November 20 or November 21 2026). Students participating need to pay the student entrance fee for both exhibits. Your student ID covers the train journeys!!!!
This seminar explores the concept of making it new as propelling force to define and redefine American and modernist literary and artistic discourses in literary and artistic production from 19th century American Romanticism and 20th century American modernisms. Students will be expected to bring short written responses to each one of the primary texts the day of class. We will conduct close readings of the literary texts and contextualize them historically. Authors to be read will include Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar A. Poe, R.W. Emerson, Langston Hughes, Charlotte Gilman Perkins, Zora Neale Hurston, Ezra Pound, HD, among others. We will also look at art and photography among others.
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Dates ( Calendar view )
| Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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| weekly | Di | 16-18 | X-E1-107 | 20.10.2026-05.02.2027 | |
| one-time | Sa | 11-16 | 24.10.2026 | Excursion to the Martha Herford Museum |
Subject assignments
| Module | Course | Requirements | |
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| 23-ANG-M-HM3 Main Module 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 | 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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