552.305 (20W) Focus on Literature: The I of each. Modernism and American Poetry
Overview
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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
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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.
Time and place
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
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 schemePosition in the curriculum
- Teacher training programme English (Secondary School Teacher Accreditation)
(SKZ: 344, Version: 04W.7)
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Stage two
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Subject: Advanced Culture Studies
(Compulsory subject)
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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)
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SE zu Topics in American Culture Studies (
2.0h SE / 5.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Advanced Culture Studies
(Compulsory subject)
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Stage two
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
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Subject: Fachliches Vertiefungsstudium
(Compulsory subject)
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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
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7.2 (b) Focus on Literature (
0.0h SE / 6.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Fachliches Vertiefungsstudium
(Compulsory subject)
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
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Subject: Freie Kombination
(Compulsory elective)
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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
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10.1 Freie Kombination (
0.0h SE / 12.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Freie Kombination
(Compulsory elective)
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 10W.3)
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Subject: Fachliches Vertiefungsstudium
(Compulsory subject)
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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)
-
Focus on Literature (
2.0h SE / 7.0 ECTS)
-
Subject: Fachliches Vertiefungsstudium
(Compulsory subject)