552.305 (20W) Focus on Literature: The I of each. Modernism and American Poetry

Wintersemester 2020/21

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First course session
12.10.2020 18:00 - 19:30 Online Off Campus
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Overview

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be necessary to make changes to courses and examinations at short notice (e.g. cancellation of attendance-based courses and switching to online examinations).

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Lecturer
Course title german Focus on Literature: The I of each. Modernism and American Poetry
Type Seminar (continuous assessment course )
Course model Online course
Hours per Week 2.0
ECTS credits 6.0
Registrations 10 (25 max.)
Organisational unit
Language of instruction English
possible language(s) of the assessment English
Course begins on 12.10.2020
eLearning Go to Moodle course
Remarks (english)

*Owing to family-health reasons (COVID-risk) and my baby of only few months, the class will be held  online via video conference calls etc. Students will be provided with details from the beginning of October onwards.*
Depending on the situation revolving around Covid-19 in autumn, class may be held online at least in part (e.g. via conference calls [group and, if requested, also individual, as we'd be more flexible timewise and I'll be available for three hours each web-session], detailled scripts echoing lecture units etc. will certainly be made availabe to students after our Monday meetings (be it online or in person), as there are people with a high risk of developing severe symptoms in the instructor's family, who herself -- in addition -- gave birth to her baby quite recently.

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Course Information

Intended learning outcomes

*Class will be held online due to family-health reasons (Covid risk) and my baby of only few months. Students will be provided with detailled information from the beginning of October onwards.*
*** Depending on the situation revolving around Covid-19 in autumn, class may be held online at least in part (e.g. via conference calls [group and, if requested, also individual, as we'd be more flexible timewise and I'll be available for three hours each web-session], detailled scripts echoing lecture units etc. will certainly be made availabe to students after our Monday meetings (be it online or in person), as there are people with a high risk of developing severe symptoms in the instructor's family, who herself -- in addition -- gave birth to her baby quite recently. ***

Aiming at an in-depth understanding of American Modernism's poetry, also looking beyond its most prominent figures.


Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

Lecture units, discussions, assignments (poetry analyses), one presentation, final seminar paper; all possible online;

Course content

Investigating poetry which shaped  American Modernism, such as Marianne Moore's 

"Black Earth":

Openly, yes,
         With the naturalness
         Of the hippopotamus or the alligator
When it climbs out on the bank to experience the

Sun, I do these
Things which I do, which please
         No one but myself.  Now I breathe and now I am sub-
         Merged; the blemishes stand up and shout when the object

In view was a
Renaissance; shall I say
         The contrary?  The sediment of the river which
         Encrusts my joints, makes me very gray but I am used

To it, it may
Remain there; do away
         With it and I am myself done away with, for the
         Patina of circumstance can but enrich what was

There to begin
With.  This elephant skin
         Which I inhabit, fibered over like the shell of
         The coco-nut, this piece of black glass through which no light

Can filter—cut
Into checkers by rut
         Upon rut of unpreventable experience—
         It is a manual for the peanut-tongued and the

Hairy toed.  Black
But beautiful, my back
         Is full of the history of power.  Of power?  What
         Is powerful and what is not?  My soul shall never

Be cut into
By a wooden spear; through-
         Out childhood to the present time, the unity of
         Life and death has been expressed by the circumference

Described by my
Trunk; nevertheless, I
         Perceive feats of strength to be inexplicable after
         All; and I am on my guard; external poise, it

Has its centre
Well nurtured—we know
         Where—in pride, but spiritual poise, it has its centre where ?
         My ears are sensitized to more than the sound of

The wind.  I see
And I hear, unlike the
         Wandlike body of which one hears so much, which was made
         To see and not to see; to hear and not to hear,

That tree trunk without  
Roots, accustomed to shout
         Its own thoughts to itself like a shell, maintained intact  
         By who knows what strange pressure of the  atmosphere; that  

Spiritual  
Brother to the coral
         Plant, absorbed into which, the equable sapphire light
         Becomes a nebulous green.  The I of each is to

The I of each,
A kind of fretful speech
         Which sets a limit on itself; the elephant is?
         Black earth preceded by a tendril?  It is to that [...]


Curricular registration requirements

Please be enrolled in the MA Programme or have reached “2. Studienabschnitt“;

Literature

will be made available on Moodle;

Examination information

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

Examination methodology

Lecture units, discussions, assignments (poetry analyses), one presentation (also possible to take the form of a prepared video to be uploaded, should the Covid-situation be questionable), final seminar paper;

Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations

Active participation in discussions, submission of short assignments, presentation, seminar paper;

Grading scheme

Grade / Grade grading scheme

Position in the curriculum

  • Teacher training programme English (Secondary School Teacher Accreditation) (SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
    • Stage two
      • Subject: Advanced Culture Studies (Compulsory subject)
        • SE zu Topics in American Culture Studies ( 2.0h SE / 5.0 ECTS)
          • 552.305 Focus on Literature: The I of each. Modernism and American Poetry (2.0h SE / 5.0 ECTS)
  • Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
    • Subject: Fachliches Vertiefungsstudium (Compulsory subject)
      • 7.2 (b) Focus on Literature ( 0.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS)
        • 552.305 Focus on Literature: The I of each. Modernism and American Poetry (2.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 4., 5. Semester empfohlen
  • Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
    • Subject: Freie Kombination (Compulsory elective)
      • 10.1 Freie Kombination ( 0.0h SE / 12.0 ECTS)
        • 552.305 Focus on Literature: The I of each. Modernism and American Poetry (2.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
  • Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
    • Subject: Fachliches Vertiefungsstudium (Compulsory subject)
      • Focus on Literature ( 2.0h SE / 7.0 ECTS)
        • 552.305 Focus on Literature: The I of each. Modernism and American Poetry (2.0h SE / 7.0 ECTS)

Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts

This course is not assigned to a sequence of equivalent courses