Readings in American Literature: Romanticism

28.4.2000

Introduction

5.5.2000

Definitions of Romanticism I

1. Text: Morse Peckham, "Towards a Theory of Romanticism", PMLA 66 (March 1951), pp. 5-23. (reader)

2. Text: R. P. Adams, "Romanticism and the American Renaissance," American Literature 4 (January 1952), pp. 419-432. (reader)

12.5.2000

3. Text: Perry Miller, "Introduction, " The Transcendentalists. An Anthology (Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1960), pp. 3-15. (reader)

4. Text: Annie Wall, "Early Transcendentalism in New England," Emerson Society Quarterly 59 (1970), pp. 46-50. (reader)

Early Romanticism

5. Text: Washington Irving, "Rip van Winkle", The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Forth or Fifth Shorter Edition (New York/London: Norton: 1995, 1999), (SNA 4, pp. 401-413) (SNA 5, pp. 428-440)

19.5.2000

Nature

6. Text: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods (Auszüge in: Norton, parts: "Economy" (SNA 4, pp. 788-829) (SNA 5, pp.868-910); "Where I Lived and What I Lived for" (SNA 4, pp. 830-839) (SNA 5, pp. 910-920); "Spring" (SNA 4, pp. 866-876) (SNA 5, pp. 949-959); "Conclusion" (SNA 4, pp. 876-884) (SNA 5, pp. 959-967)

7. Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" (SNA 4, pp. 440-467) (SNA 5, pp. 496-525)

26.5.2000

Artist – Consciousness – Imagination I

8. Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet" (SNA 4, pp. 509-523)

9. Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (SNA 4, pp. 492-508)

(SNA 5, pp. 550-567)

2.6.2000

individuelle Arbeit (zusätzliche Sitzung zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt wird vereinbart)

10. Text: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (SNA 4, pp. 832-864) (SNA 5, pp. 967-1000)

9.6.2000

individuelle Arbeit (zusätzliche Sitzung wird vereinbart)

11. Text: Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (SNA 4, pp. 993-1018) (SNA 5, pp. 1109-1134)

16.6.2000

Artist - Consciousness - Imagination II

12.Text: Walt Whitman, "Preface" zu: Leaves of Grass (SNA 4, pp. 922-936)

(SNA 5, pp. 1005-1019)

13. Text: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth-Century: "The Great Lawsuit" (SNA 5, pp. 766-775; "Four Kinds of Equality"; "The Great Radical Dualism")

23.6.200

Artist - Consciousness - Imagination III

14. Text: Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Preface" zu: The House of the Seven Gables

(SNA 4, pp. 626-628)

15 Text: Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Prophetic Pictures" (in: Twice-Told Tales (Columbus, OH: Ohio UP, 1974), pp. 166-182. (reader)

30.6.2000

Konferenz (individuelle Arbeit)

7.7.2000

Poetry

16. Text: Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (SNA 4, pp. 992-996 )

(SNA 5, 1033-1038)

17. Text: Emily Dickinson, "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died"

(SNA 5, pp. 1202)

14.7.2000

Community

18. Text: Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Historic Notes of the Life and Letters in New England", Norton Critical Edition, ed. by Seymor Gross and Rosalie Murphy (New York/London: Norton, 1978), pp. 258-265)

19. Text: George Willis Cook, "Brook Farm", New England Magazine 4 (December 1897), pp. 391-407/reprint, pp. 59-66.

20. Text: Nathaniel Hawthorne, "From His Letters and Journals", The Blithedale Romance, Norton Critical Edition, pp. 231-241.

21.7.2000

Zusammenfassung/Auswertung