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Lit.wiss. Proseminar : "Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (1913), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)"- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer
- Angaben
- Proseminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Zeit und Ort: Mi 10:15 - 11:45, U9/111
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Magister, Diplom und Lehramt: Proseminar I Literaturwissenschaft
BA: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Please register by e-mail (sylvia.mayer@split.uni-bamberg.de) until October 13, 2007
- Inhalt
- Central to Willa Cather’s novels O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop is the frontier experience in the American Midwest and Southwest. O Pioneers! is set in the Nebraska prairies around 1900 and tells the story of Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson’s struggle to make a living for herself and for her family in a landscape that demands a lot of the immigrants both physically and mentally. Death Comes for the Archbishop, a historical novel set in 19th-century New Mexico, addresses the pioneering efforts of the Catholic Church in the American Southwest by tracing the efforts of Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, who attempt to organize the new diocese of New Mexico. Seminar discussions will start with a focus on narratological analysis of the texts and then move on to discussions of various dimensions of the frontier experience. Central will be the immigrant experience, the encounter of European settlers with the various other ethnic groups of the native population, and the impact that the land, the natural environment, has on the process of settlement..
Participants of the Proseminar are expected to buy the editions of the texts given below and to have read both novels by the beginning of the semester. There will be a test concerning basic aspects of contents of the novels ("Test zur Überprüfung der Textkenntnis") in the third meeting of the seminar.
A 'Schein' requires regular attendance and participation, a presentation in class and a written paper of 10-12 pages (in English) to be handed in by March 7, 2008.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Please buy the following texts:
Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: Vintage, 1990. [ISBN-10: 0679728899; ISBN-13: 978-0679728894]
Willa Cather. O Pioneers! Oxford’s World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. [ISBN-10: 0192832166; ISBN-13: 978-0192832160]
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20
- Institution: Professur für Anglistik und Amerikanistik mit Schwerpunkt Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
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