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Course no.: Exam no.:
82-008-L-ANG03-V-S-SE-0512.20192.002
Course title: Exam title:
Literature and Media: Modernism in Literature and the Arts
Kategorie:
Seminar
Language of lesson:
Englisch
Date:
10/22/2019 - 2/7/2020
Organizer:
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lecturer: Examiner:
Rössler, Julia
Exam type:
Exam mode:
Max. number of participants:
25 unlimited
Type of studies:
Learning objectives:
Content/topics:
Modernism, in its broadest sense, is a period of rapid artistic experimentation and transformation roughly between 1890 and 1930. Among the key features of modernist art across different media was the intention to break with old traditions and to create new and provocative works of art (‘Make it New!’). At the same time, modernist literature, film, and theatre reflect the major social, cultural and philosophical shifts during modernity: urbanisation, the machine age, the emergence of psychoanalysis and theories of relativity, as well as an increasing distrust in language and representation as stable cornerstones of understanding und perception.
In this seminar, we will examine representative works of modernist fiction, poetry, drama, visual art and film and trace the artists’ interest in formal experimentation and their quest of finding new expressive means for the experience of modernity. New styles and practices evolve in varying ways across established (fiction, poetry) and newer (film, photography, theatre) art forms and manifest in the emergence of innovative literary and artistic techniques (e.g. imagism, stream-of-consciousness, expressionism). We will also pay attention to variations of distinctly American modernism(s). We will read a selection of literary works, but also consult essays, paintings, films and manifestos.
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Literature:
The selection of material will include (but is not limited to) John Dos Passos’s novel -Manhatttan Transfer-; poetry by Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore as well as poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (Hughes) and plays by Eugene O’Neill; Excerpts from modernist fiction (Hemingway, Woolf, Joyce); Futurist, Cubist, Surrealist, and Vorticist art; modernist manifestos (Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, André Breton, Ezra Pound); Charlie Chaplin’s film -Modern Times-.
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Registration from… to:
9/24/2019 -
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Status:
Closed
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Scheduled event/examination dates 
Date / Time Room Lecturer Comment
Tue 22.10.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 29.10.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 05.11.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 12.11.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 19.11.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 26.11.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 03.12.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 10.12.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 17.12.2019 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 07.01.2020 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 14.01.2020 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 21.01.2020 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 28.01.2020 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
Tue 04.02.2020 12:00 - 2:00 PM O17-101 Rössler, Julia
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