American Literature 3301-L1ALW1
This is a series of lectures that is to provide an overiew of major developments in American literature from the 17th century up to the present times. Organized chronologically, the lectures cover major developments in American literature. They focus both on literary movements such as literature of the colonial period, the Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, American Renaissance, the Lost Generation and the Beat Generation as well as discuss American major literary genres (the slave narrative, cativity narrative, gothic fiction, local color fiction, new journalism, postmodern and ethnic fiction). The discussion of literature is set against the historical and cultural background and is supplemented with addictional visual materials.
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
K_W02 understand key terminology, well established methods and theories of linguistics, literary studies and culture studies within English studies
K_W03 describe methodology and recent developments in English literary studies and culture studies
K_W04 describe the relation between language, literature, and historical and cultural processes on an advanced level
K_U01 employ the terminology and methodological tools from linguistics, literary studies and culture studies
K_U03 analyze linguistic, literary and cultural phenomena and draw generalizations on their basis with respect to the social, historical and economic context
K_U05 collect information from various sources, critically assess a source and usefulness of information; analyze and draw generalizations on the basis of information so obtained
K_U06 identify and implement cultural conventions in intercultural interactions
K_U07 employ modern technology for the sake of obtaining information and using various communication channels and techniques
Assessment criteria
A written exam by the end of the spring semester.
Bibliography
Zbigniew Lewicki ed. A Handbook of American Literature
Malcolm Bradbury, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature.
Emory Elliott, ed. The Columbia Literary History of the United States
Emory Elliott, ed. The Columbia History of the American Novel
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