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21761-01 - Seminar: Literature and Film of/on the Deep South (3 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2009 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Therese Steffen (therese.steffen@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | An intense reading of major works emerging after the Civil War (1860-1865), and the aftermath of a victory that legally put an end to the peculiar institution of slavery in the Deep South. Yet, myths of aristocratic chivalry, southern belles, sentiment and romance still abound in the so-called plantation novel. These myths concur with rural backwardness, carpetbagging, poor white trash-issues and fears of miscegenation (the infamous one-drop-rule of black blood), lynching, and the Ku Klux Klan. |
| Learning objectives | This seminar seeks to examine the grotesque, the comic and the tragic circumstances of race-class-gender identity politics in the Deep South, topics that reach deeply beyond the regional. |
| Bibliography | Texts will be available at the Labyrinth and include: - William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury", "Absalom, Absalom!"; - Flannery OConnor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"; - Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"; - Carson McCullers, "The Ballad of the Sad Café"; - Margaret Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind" (Film); - Katherine A. Porter, "Pale Horse", "Pale Rider"; - Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man"; - Eudora Welty, "One Writers Beginning". |
| Admission requirements | Open to students who have completed their second year proseminar paper in Literature and Culture Studies. |
| Course application | Students wishing to participate should contact therese.steffen@unibas.ch for details. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul English & American Literature (Master's degree subject: English) Modul Extending the View (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch) Modul Focusing on the Discipline (Literary and Cultural Studies) (Bachelor's degree subject: Englisch) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | t.b.a. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Englisches Seminar |