Details

Faculty	Faculty of Humanities
Domain	English
Code	UE-L06.01152
Languages	English
Type of lesson	Proseminar
Level	Bachelor
Semester	SA-2021

Schedules and rooms

Summary schedule

Monday 13:15 - 15:00, Hebdomadaire (Autumn semester)

Teaching

Responsibles	Austenfeld Thomas
Teachers	Austenfeld Thomas
Description	American literature and American politics have been closely connected since the nation's beginning: the authors of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and other key documents were accomplished rhetoricians and writers. Presidential speeches and other special-occasion utterances—such as by pioneering feminists or Civil Rights leaders—have tended to combine sophisticated argument and linguistic elegance. The Trump administration caused many observers to question whether political discourse in the US had been altered permanently. In this class, we will look at classic statements on the topic of Democracy in America and will consider both their political and literary relevance. We will also consider the question of how the Trump years changed the public discourse.
Softskills	No
Off field	No
BeNeFri	No
Mobility	Yes
UniPop	No

Documents

Bibliography

Texts: At Librophoros: American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions.  Library of America, 2020  (approximately 20 Euros). Provided on MOODLE for you: Amerikastudien / American Studies 66.1 (2021). "Common Grounds? American Democracy After Trump."  Guest editors Cedric Esse, Heike Paul, and Boris Vormann.

Séminaire - Outside session

Assessments methods

By rating, By success/failure