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19943-01 - Seminar: Hemingway and Faulkner (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2008 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Therese Steffen (therese.steffen@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Hemingway, the Midwesterner and cosmopolitan expatriate, the man about war, women, trouts, and bullfights; the lonely hunter who helped revolutionizing the American short story. Hemingway, the brilliant stylist whose linguistic economy and profundity of unseen detail culminates in his dictum: The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. And Faulkner who rarely left the Deep South of Jefferson, Mississippi, the captial of his fictitious Yoknapatawpha county. Faulkner who declined President Kennedys invitation to the White House because as a farmer he had to harvest his crop at this time of year. This seminar seeks to examine the modes and contents of modernist fiction beyond the anecdotal and stereotypcial stance: the deceptively simple surfaces, ellipses, Leerstellen in Hemingways texts as well as the dark underside of Southern chivalry in Faulkners reconstruction of racial segregation, miscegenation, familial dysfunction, and lynching. Hemingways hero shows grace under pressure, Faulkners character will endure and prevail. The voracious and careful readers reward will be a range of extraordinary texts. |
| Literatur | Ernest Hemingway: "In Our Time", "The Sun Also Rises", "A Farewell to Arms", "The Old Man and the Sea"; William Faulkner: "The Sound and The Fury", "Light in August", "As I Lay Dying", "Sanctuary/Requiem for a Nun", "Absalom, Absalom!". |
| Bemerkungen | Optional seminar paper |
| Teilnahmevoraussetzungen | Open to students who have successfully completed their second year courses and paper in literature/culture. Books should be read by the beginning of the seminar. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| HörerInnen willkommen |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul English & American Literature (Master Studienfach: Englisch) Modul Extending the View (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor Studienfach: Englisch) Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor Studienfach: Englisch) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Regular attendance, oral presentation |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Englisches Seminar |