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This seminar will introduce students to one of the most prominent features of American national identity - the American Dream. Reading and viewing material from various branches of American culture, we will try to get an overview of the origins of the American Dream and its continuing transformation into a major cultural and political presence in the United States. Analyzing material taken from music, film, politics, and literature students are asked to determine general features of the American Dream as well as individual interpretations of it. Short introductory lectures on the various feature of the American Dream will provide the necessary background for our discussions of exemplary material. - Jim Cullen. The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-0195173253
- F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. Reclam, 1989. ISBN: 978-3150092422
- a short reader containing all additional texts will be made available at the copy shop on Reckhammerweg 4 after the first class meeting
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