LA-Modul Berufsvorbereitendes Lektüremodul

Dr. Rainer Wallat
Nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
LA-Modul Berufsvorbereitendes Lektüremodul
Nordamerikanische Literaturwissenschaft (Wallat)
Grundlegendes Allgemeinwissen in der amerikanischen Literatur wurde bereits durch frühere Module,
insbesondere die Vorlesungsanteile, zur Verfügung gestellt und wird hier vorausgesetzt. Wir schlagen zum
begleitenden Erwerb vertiefter Kenntnisse die folgenden Überblickstexte vor:
Norton Anthology of American Literature
Heath Anthology of American Literature
Cambridge History of American Literature (ed. Sacvan Bercovitch)
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte (ed. Hubert Zapf; Metzler-Verlag)
A New Literary History of America (ed. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors; Harvard UP)
Die zu schnürenden 6 Päckchen bestehen, je nach Länge, aus jeweils 2-3 Primärtexten und müssen aus den
nachfolgenden größeren Paketen ausgewählt werden. Primärliteratur je nach Schwierigkeit jeweils ca. 800 pp.
pro Päckchen; Sekundärliteratur ca. 100 pp. Unter den drei Päckchen müssen sich mindestens 2 aus den
Period Packages befinden. Beim Rest sollten allzu viele Doppelungen vermieden werden. Die Lektürepäckchen
werden individuell mit den Prüfern abgestimmt.
Die Primärliteratur muss erworben werden. Zusätzlich empfehlen wir, Ausgaben von Norton, Bedford St.
Martins oder Broadview oder andere kommentierte Ausgaben mit Zusatzmaterial und kritischen Essays zu
benutzen (UB). Bei der Recherche zu Sekundärliteratur achten Sie bitte auf Qualität (wiss. Monographien,
Aufsatzsammlungen und Aufsätze; MLA International Bibliography; GVK+).
PERIOD PACKAGES
NATIONAL BEGINNINGS (1800-1840)
Literary Nationalism
AMERICAN CLASSICS (1840-1900)
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Local Color
Sentimentalism
Realism
Naturalism
Modernism
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry, Penguin Classics (1996)
Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland, or, The Transformation, AnAmericanTale (1798)
Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories (Puffin Classics)
James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers (1823)
Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Short Stories (1849)
Edgar Allan Poe, Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838))
Edgar Allan Poe, Poems
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter / Selected Short Stories (1850)
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick / Selected Short Stories (1851)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings (1854)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920. Penguin Classics (1995)
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1887)
Emily Dickinson, Poems (1890)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1892)
Ambrose Bierce, The Complete Short Stories
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane, Selected Short Stories
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Jack London, The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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(Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Henry James, Turn of the Screw (1898)
Henry James, Selected Short Stories
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth / Short Stories
Theodor Dreiser, Sister Carrie
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio / Selected Short Stories (1919)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Pape;, and Selected Writings
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Classics)
e.e. cummings, Selected Poems
Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby / Short Stories (1925)
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta
Ernest Hemingway, Short Stories (1929)
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
William Faulkner, Light in August / Selected Short Stories (1932)
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Selected Short Stories
Raymond Chandler, Stories and Early Novels (Library of America, 1995)
Margaret Atwood, Surfacing Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (1972)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime (1975)
MODERNISM(S) (1900-1945)
Avant-garde
Imagist Movement
Expressionism
Harlem Renaissance
Lost Generation
AFTER MODERNISM TO THE PRESENT
(Contemporary Period)
DRAMA
PROSE
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949)
Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night (1941-2, 1956)
John Osborne, Look Back in Anger (1957)
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962)
LeRoi Jones, The Slave / Dutchman (1964)
Selected Short Stories & Poems
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (Short Stories)(1951)
Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1951)
Jerome David Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)
William Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959)
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime (1975)
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John Irving, The World According to Garp (1978)
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
Alice Walker, Complete Stories (2005)
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977) / Beloved (1987)
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County (1992)
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (1985) / The Road (2006)
Toni Hillerman (ed.), American Detective Stories (OUP, 1996)
Joyce Carol Oates (ed.), American Gothic Tales (Plume, 1996)
Wesley Brown & Amy Ling (eds.), Imagining America: Stories from the
Promised Land (Persea, 2003)
POETRY
Alan Ginsberg, Howl & other Poems
Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, Selected Poems
Anne Sexton, Selected Poems
Adrienne Rich, Selected Poems
Nikki Giovanni, Selected Poems
David Lehmann (ed.), The Oxford Book of American Poetry, (OUP, 2006)
THEMATIC PACKAGES
I)
POETRY
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry, Penguin Classics (1996)
Alan Ginsberg, Howl & other Poems
Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, Selected Poems
Anne Sexton, Selected Poems
Adrienne Rich, Selected Poems
Nikki Giovanni, Selected Poems
David Lehmann (ed.), The Oxford Book of American Poetry, (OUP, 2006)
II)
ROMANTICISM &
TRANSCENDENTALISM
Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Short Stories (1849)
Edgar Allan Poe, Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838))
Edgar Allan Poe, Poems
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter / Selected Short Stories (1850)
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick / Selected Short Stories (1851)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings (1854)
III)
AMERICAN LOCAL COLOR &
REGIONALISM
American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920. Penguin Classics (1995)
Stephen Crane, Selected Short Stories
Jack London, The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
(Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio / Selected Short Stories (1919)
IV)
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Frederick Douglass, “The Heroic Slave”
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)*
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man*
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Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
Claude McKay, The Selected Poems of Claude McKay (1953)
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
LeRoi Jones, The Slave / Dutchman / Selected Short Stories & Poems
Nikki Giovanni, Selected Poems
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
Alice Walker, Complete Stories (2005)
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (1977) / Beloved (1987)
Wright, Kai (ed.). The African-American Experience: Black History and
Culture. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009. (ISBN-10: 1579127738
/ ISBN-13: 978-1579127732)
*Three Negro Classics: "Up from Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois, "An
Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson. Avon; Auflage: Reissue (1. Februar 1999) (ISBN-10:
0380015811 / ISBN-13: 978-0380015818) [Amazon: from € 1.49 to 5.49]
V)
WAR IN LITERATURE
Walt Whitman, Drum-Tabs (1892)
Hermann Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War
Poems (1866)
Ambrose Bierce, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891)
Steven Crane: The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Tim O'Brien: Going After Cacciato (1978)
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Ben Fountain: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012)
VI)
GOTHIC LITERATURE
Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland (1798)
Edgar Allan Poe, Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838)
Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories (1849)
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw (1898)
Stephen King, Carrie (1974) / Skeleton Crew (1985)
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
Joyce Carol Oates (ed.): American Gothic Tales. New York: Plume, 1996.
(ISBN 0-452-27489-3)
VI)
DETECTIVE & CRIME FICTION
Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland (1798)
Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories (1949)
Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (1930) (1989) Vintage, ISBN-10:
0679722645.
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (1939) (2003) Penguin, ISBN 0-14010892-0.
Sarah Paretsky, Black List (2003), ISBN 0-399-15085-4.
Hillerman, T. and Rosemary Herbert (eds.) (1997), The Oxford Book of
American Detective Stories, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
ISBN: 0195117921.
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VII)
UTOPIAN & DYSTOPIAN FICTION
William Dean Howells, A Traveler from Altruria (1894)
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888)
Charlotte Perkin Gillman, Herland (1915)
Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man (1951)
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2007)