https://americanrenaissance.blogger.de/ KUE-I: Amerikanistik: SoSe2007/08: 19th Century American Literature Blogger.de sfroehlich (mailto:soeren.froehlich@gmx.net) 2010-11-28T03:02:10Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://americanrenaissance.blogger.de/stories/890920/ Regarding the longest primary texts: Hawthorne: Generally, Hawthorne's texts are quite readable, with a fluent, though somewhat aged, formal style (remember how old these texts are and what people read back then...read through Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress for a taste). The focus with his texts will lie on unpacking the very very dense concepts and strategic relations he sets up in his texts, how characters and topics interact, overlap, and struggle. Think about his view of the past, what America's... Blogger.de sfroehlich Texts Copyright © 2007 sfroehlich 2007-08-26T21:47:04Z https://americanrenaissance.blogger.de/stories/875389/ Es ist wirklich ein dickes Buch, also an all die Tapferen, die sich dieses Monsters annehmen ein Extratool: http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ebatke/moby/ghindex.html Eine Volltextsuche, mit Direktzugriff, Seiten nummeriert nach der Norton Critical Edition. Blogger.de sfroehlich Texts Copyright © 2007 sfroehlich 2007-08-08T15:21:38Z https://americanrenaissance.blogger.de/stories/890942/ Regarding our secondary texts... Well, we won't cover everything, and not in-depth, but this is a university course in literature, and you should be roughly aware of the current state of research. We will look at socio-cultural contexts and related theoretical questions related to the texts (among others Marxism, Feminism, New Historicism), at aesthetic dimensions (New Criticism), and at the experience of reading (Narratology, Reader Reception Theory, Hermeneutics). None of these articles will be... Blogger.de sfroehlich Texts Copyright © 2007 sfroehlich 2007-08-26T22:04:11Z https://americanrenaissance.blogger.de/stories/892027/ Though at first you may think of Walden as a disorganized, loose collection of notes and random thoughts and guesses, try to find structure. (Even if you decide to follow contemporary approaches to literature, remember that in order to prove a text's undercutting of itself, for example, you will first have to establish a structure in the text and not just simply deny it from the get-go.) We'll probably have this passage in the course reader, but I'll post it so that you can read Walden along these... Blogger.de sfroehlich Texts Copyright © 2007 sfroehlich 2007-08-27T22:34:56Z https://americanrenaissance.blogger.de/stories/940779/ The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volume B: American Literature, 1880-1865 Edgar Allan Poe Biography Born to the teenage actors Elizabeth Arnold and David Poe Jr. (in a time when acting was a highly disreputable career), Edgar Allan Poe was raised by a Richmond, Virginia, merchant named John Allan when both his parents died. Allan sent Poe to the University of Virginia, but he left after a quarrel with Allan in 1827 and sought out his father's relatives in Baltimore. In Baltimore... Blogger.de sfroehlich Texts Copyright © 2007 sfroehlich 2007-10-17T05:32:17Z https://americanrenaissance.blogger.de/stories/940780/ The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volume B: American Literature, 1880-1865 Emily Dickinson Biography A life-long resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson left her hometown for only one year, when she attended Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary. She was raised in an intellectual and socially prominent family and at the age of eighteen had received a better formal education than most of her American contemporaries, both male and female. Yet Dickinson led a largely sequestered existence,... Blogger.de sfroehlich Texts Copyright © 2007 sfroehlich 2007-10-17T05:33:01Z https://americanrenaissance.blogger.de/stories/940778/ The Norton Anthology of American Literature Volume B: American Literature, 1880-1865 Walt Whitman Biography Born on Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman left school at eleven and found work as an office boy, a journeyman printer, and a teacher. He started his own newspaper when he was nineteen and subsequently went on to edit and contribute to several prominent New York periodicals. In 1855 Whitman published his first book, Leaves of Grass, a collection of twelve poems that both... Blogger.de sfroehlich Texts Copyright © 2007 sfroehlich 2007-10-17T05:31:22Z Search this site: q https://americanrenaissance.blogger.de/search