BA Seminar: Varieties of the American Short Story 4219-ZS041
1. Presentation of the first draft of introduction and discussion (2 students)
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6. Presentation of the first draft of the first analytical chapter (2 students)
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11. Presentation of the first draft of the second analytical chapter and conclusions (2students)
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Type of course
obligatory courses
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge: A graduate possesses comprehensive knowledge and understanding of:
- the significance of cultural studies and religious studies within the scholarly system, including their specific subjects and methodologies, relationships with other disciplines and fields, and future development directions
- terminology, methods, tools, and techniques for data acquisition, selected research traditions, schools, and directions of development specific to cultural and religious studies for researching cultural and social phenomena in the United States
- major trends and works of American literature, essential foundations of American literary history that are an integral part of studying North American culture, as well as theoretical and methodological basics of literary studies
Skills: A graduate is able to:
- formulate and solve complex research problems, recognizing, understanding, interpreting, explaining, and analyzing the causes and course of cultural processes and phenomena in the United States using sources and standard research methods and tools within the humanities
- interpret works of American literature in the context of broadly understood American culture
- communicate on American topics related to the United States using specialized terminology in the English language and advanced information and communication techniques
- participate, under the supervision of a scientific supervisor, in the preparation of research projects (individual and group) in the broad field of cultural studies in the United States
Social Skills: A graduate is able to:
- utilize interdisciplinary knowledge acquired in American Studies concerning the United States to formulate own opinions and recognize its significance in solving cognitive and practical problems
- responsibly fulfill professional roles, taking into account changing social needs; act in accordance with professional ethics and expect it from others
- develop professionally, continue learning and engage in the development of American Studies
Assessment criteria
Introduction: 20 pts; chapter I: 20 pts; chapter II and conclusions: 30 pts, discussion: 30 pts.
Bibliography
Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Ernest Hemingway, 49 Stories
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, [selected stories]
William Faulkner, Collected Stories
Carson McCullers, Collected Stories
Flannery O'Connor, Complete Stories
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Dominick LaCapra, Historia w okresie przejściowym
Antologia studiów nad traumą, red. Tomasz Łysak
Sigmund Freud, „Mourning and Melancholia”
Eva Illouz, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
G.R. Thompson, Poe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales
Wolfgang Kayser, The Grotesque
Additional information
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