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Inhalte:
This lecture course, which is offered every semester, aims to provide an overview of American literature from its Native American beginnings to the present. The class will introduce you to the main periods of American literature and their cultural as well as historical contexts, to about sixty of the most prominent American authors, and to a variety of individual texts. Background lectures will be complemented by discussions of passages from all major literary genres. |
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A reader containing all the texts with which we will deal in this class will be available from the copy shop at Reckhammerweg 4 by October 21, 2015.
For the first class meeting on October 28, please read the texts listed under “Lecture 1” in the reader. |
