others, the myth of the wilderness and the frontier, the representation of migration and slavery in literary texts, the literature of ethnic minorities, the American city, and gothic literature. The development [...] lecture students are introduced to the development of American literature from pre-colonial times to the present, both in the context of historical events and with regard to the development of literary genres [...] North American Literature and Culture Studies has its focus in the literature of the United States and, to a lesser degree, Canada and the anglophone Caribbean – from Herman Melville to Paul Auster, from
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