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Instructors: Anna Lienen
Event type:
Proseminar
Org-unit: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Displayed in timetable as:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Literature:
An anthology of relevant texts will be compiled and made available at a nominal price by the beginning of term.
Further materials will be distributed in class.
Comment:
We are going to look at surfing less as a sport but rather as a cultural phenomenon which has its roots in ritual. Following its introduction to American culture from Hawai'i to California in the late 19th century, surfing began to play a part in emerging West Coast subculture, before commercialisation and increasing media hype set in during the mid-1960s.
We are going read and discuss a wide range of fictional and expository texts from the 18th century to the immediate present, but we shall also focus on film and popular music.
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