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Titel
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American Minimalism
Formålet med forløbet er, at eleverne skal blive i stand til at beskrive og finde minimalistiske træk i amerikanske noveller. Derudover skal de kunne redegøre for Ernest Hemingways Iceberg Theory og kunne anvende den på teksterne.
De skal opnå en forståelse for minimalistisk litteratur som en litterær strømning, hvor teksterne i særlig grad inviterer læseren til at tage en aktiv del i meningsproduktionen, idet den minimalistisk skrivestil er karakteriseret ved sparsomme beskrivelser af fx setting, characterisation og plot.
Elevernes analytiske kompetence skal skærpes og herunder skal de arbejde med at underbygge deres fortolkning af tekster.
Sidst men ikke mindst skal vi diskutere metoden Reader-response Criticism som særlig oplagt læsning af minimalistisk litteratur.
De noveller, der indgår i forløbet, handler alle om relationer i parforhold.
Minimalistic characteristics:
Easy vocabulary, short words, short sentences, short paragraphs, simple sentence structure, little action, little figurative language, minimal description of characters and setting, minimal background information, often written in the present tense, open ending, no resolution.
The narrator only tells the reader the minimum and leaves it to the readers to fill out the blank spaces in the text; there is hardly any explanations of the characters’ feelings, thoughts, background or motives.
Material:
Texts:
Amy Hempel: "Memoir" (2005), from When Less Is More, Gyldendal, 2014
Ernest Hemingway: "Cat in the Rain" (1925) from When Less Is More, Gyldendal, 2014
Raymond Carver: "Neighbors" (1981), from When Less Is More, Gyldendal, 2014
Amy Hempel: "Beach Town", from "When Less is More", Gyldendal, 2014
Raymond Carver: "Tell the women we're going",
Paintings:
Amy Bennett: "Throwing Fits" (2206), from When Less Is More, Gyldendal, 2014
Amy Bennett: "Exposure" (2007), from When Less Is More, Gyldendal, 2014
Edward Hopper: “Room in Brooklyn” (1932), from When Less Is More, Gyldendal, 2014
Literary Criticism:
On Reader-response Criticism, from Readings,
Theory:
Ernest Hemingway on the Iceberg theory, short text from 1956
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