Course Schedule
Veranstaltungen von Prof. (apl.) Dr. Maria Moss
Lehrveranstaltungen
Creative Writing: Poetry and Short Fiction (Übung)
Dozent/in: Maria Moss
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 5.311 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Interested in awakening your creative spirit and discovering your potential for equally creative output? This seminar puts theory into practice by offering a variety of exercises to ignite ideas, experiment with literary styles and genres as well as give and receive constructive criticism in peer-editing sessions. This seminar will help you develop your own style and voice when writing poetry (including Haikus) and vignettes. In the end, students will have a portfolio (for lack of a better name), consisting of 2-3 Haikus, 2-3 vignettes, and 2-3 poems.
Canadian Short Fiction: Trends and Developments (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Maria Moss
Termin:
wöchentlich | Freitag | 12:15 - 13:45 | 07.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 5.310 Seminarraum
Inhalt: If there's one genre Canadian writers have excelled in and pushed to new limits, it is the short story. Consequently, Alice Munro was the first writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature for her collections of short stories. Starting in the 1960s with the rise of Canadian nationalism (meaning becoming aware of being a nation separate from both the U.S. and England/France), writers such as Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, or Alistair McLeod have embarked on the successful journey of firmly establishing the short story in the literary history of Canada. After a general introduction to Canadian literature, we will concentrate on the many different groups that have contributed to furthering the short genre in Canada (Métis, Inuit, First Nations, immigrant writing, and the so-called mainstream) and will look at their achievements.