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23199-01 - Seminar: Postmodern and Post-postmodern US-American Fiction since the 1990s (3 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2009 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Therese Steffen (therese.steffen@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This seminar offers a reading of US-American texts since the 1990s as they emerge out of postmodernist metafiction and move into a specific post-postmodern writing after 9/11. We will analyze the following writings between fact and fiction: 9/11 and its aftermath; history/family histories retold; US-American moodscapes, transgression and hybridity. |
| Learning objectives | The seminar allows a deepening of the texts presented in the lecture course of the previous term. |
| Bibliography | Authors will include, among others: Auster, Updike, Roth, Powers, DeLillo, Eugenides, Foer, Ford, Lethem, Whitehead. Text must be read by the beginning of the course. |
| 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 |