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Walt Whitman in American Culture [Import]- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung, The first half of this Blockseminar is taught by one of the world’s most renowned Whitman scholars and most outstanding teachers, Ed Folsom (University of Iowa). Registration is open!
Zeit und Ort: Einzeltermin am 21.10.2022 14:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17; Einzeltermin am 28.10.2022 14:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17; Einzeltermin am 29.10.2022 10:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17; Einzeltermin am 18.11.2022 14:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17; Einzeltermin am 19.11.2022 10:00 - 17:00, U5/01.17; Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: Course registration starts on August 15!!!
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)
>> OPEN for Consolidation Module literary and cultural studies!
>> NOT open for students requiring an “Oberseminar” for their Master Thesis Module!
2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section (‘Lehrstuhl’): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.
- Course Participation (de)enrollment: August 15 – October 20, 2022 (Attention: EARLY registration!)
- ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 – February 01, 2023
Guest auditors: please contact Prof. Dr. Gerhardt via e-mail.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.
- Inhalt
- In this course, we will read the work of one of America’s most innovative and influential poets, focusing on the ways in which his work responded to major developments in nineteenth-century American culture. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) sought to forge a living connection between a new kind of poetry and the massive changes he witnessed in the US as an evolving, conflict-ridden democracy. And indeed, throughout the various editions of Leaves of Grass (1855-92), his free-flowing lines, powerful imagery, and wide range of social, political, and sexual concerns challenged conventional notions of poetry more radically, and talked about American culture more openly and inclusively, than any other nineteenth-century poet.
In our seminar, we will begin with the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. What was so revolutionary about this slim book of 12 poems? Who is its author, does it contain poetry at all, what does its unusual format suggest? We will move on to discuss how some of Whitman’s most iconic poems think about key events and dynamics of his time, including race, slavery, and the Civil War, changing notions of gender and sexuality, the natural sciences and beginning environmentalism, and the fate of democracy. Throughout, we will link Whitman – who always hoped to be read across space and time – to our own cultural moment, considering the resonances of his vision for the 21st century.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- You need to buy a critical edition of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, ideally this one:
- Whitman, Walt. Poetry and Collected Prose. Ed. Justin Kaplan. New York: Library of America, 1982 [or later editions].
(Alternatively, Leaves of Grass and other Writings, Norton Critical Edition, edited by Michael Moon, 2002; or the older but excellent Leaves of Grass, A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Sculley Bradley and Harold Blodgett, will also work well.)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Walt Whitman in American Culture
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25
- Institution: Professur für Amerikanistik
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