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Module number (link to module description)	Module title	Module coordinator	ECTS credits for module
82-008-L-ANG33-V-H-0512	Literary and Cultural History I: American Literature	Dietrich, René	5

Course no.: Exam no.:	82-008-L-ANG33-V-S-SE-0512.20201.003
Course title: Exam title:	Literary and Cultural History I: Modernist Poetry
Kategorie:	Seminar
Language of lesson:	Englisch
Date:	4/30/2020 - 7/24/2020
Organizer:	Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lecturer: Examiner:	Aghoro, Nathalie
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Exam mode:	Portfolio
Max. number of participants:	20 unlimited
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Content/topics:	In this course, we will examine the many faces of American modernist poetry and explore revolutionary literary and aesthetic trends in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century: from influential precursors (Walt Whitman) to the high modernism of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn B. Bennett), and the Beat Generation’s late modernism. What were the cultural, literary, and historical contexts that fueled these multi-faceted attempts at ‘making it new’? How do modernist forms capture and engage with social and economic changes in American society? We will explore modernist literary and cultural perspectives on industrialization, cosmopolitanism, segregation, and gender roles. We will seek to understand modern concerns with new perspectives on human subjectivity and experience. And we will discuss the interconnections and aesthetic influences between art, literary manifestos and modernist poetry.
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Registration from… to:	3/10/2020 -
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Scheduled event/examination dates

Date / Time	Room	Lecturer	Comment
Thu 30.04.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 07.05.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 14.05.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 28.05.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 04.06.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 18.06.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 25.06.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 02.07.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 09.07.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 16.07.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie
Thu 23.07.2020 10:00 - 12:00 PM		Aghoro, Nathalie