- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
American Writers in Europe: From Washington Irving to Walter Abish 4219-SC091-OG
List of classes (authors and texts):
1. Introductory: subject matter and scope of the course
2. Washington Allston: painting (PowerPoint presentation), excerpts from letters
3. Washington Irving: The Sketch Book ("Rural Life in England," "A Sunday in London," "John Bull")
4. James Fenimore Cooper: Gleanings in Italy, Gleanings in France (excerpts)
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (excerpts), English Traits ("Manners," "Character," "Result," "Speech at Manchester")
6. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The English Notebooks, The Italian Notebooks (excerpts)
7. Margaret Fuller, "These Sad but Glorious Days" Dispatches from Europe 1846-1850 (Dispatches 8, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 26, 27, 28, 33)
8. Herman Melville, Journals 1856-1857 (excerpts), "Statues in Rome"
9. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad chapters 10-16)
10. Henry James, Italian Hours ("Venice," "The Grand Canal")
11. Henry Adams, Mont Sant Michel and Chartres ("Saint Michiel de la Mer del Peril," "The Virgin of Chartres"), The Education of Henry Adams ("Berlin," "Rome")
12. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
13. James Baldwin. Notes of a Native Son ("Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown," "A Question of Identity," "Equal in Paris")
14. Walter Abish, Double Vision ("New York, Traveling to Germany," "Vienna," "Munich," "Berlin")
The reading for each class is ca. 30-40 pages.
Type of course
foreign languages
Mode
Remote learning
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
1. The student is able to identify and understand cultural differences between the United States of America and the countries of Western Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2. The student is able to analyze cultural differences between the United States of America and the countries of Western Europe in the above period recorded in various literary and non-literary genres.
3. The student develops competence useful to identify and understand cultural differences in the present world.
Assessment criteria
Term paper on a subject chosen from a list to be provided (no more than 12 pages): 50%
Participation in class discussion of the texts included iin the reading list: 50%
Practical placement
None
Bibliography
Secondary literature:
Baker, Paul, R., "The Fortunate Pilgrims. American Writers in Italy, 1800-1860" Harvard UP, 1964
Capper, Charles and Cristina Giorcelli, "Margaret Fuller. Transatlantic Crossings in the Revolutionary Age" U of Wisconsin P, 2007
Earnest, Ernest, "Expatriates and Patriots. American Artists, Scholars, and Writers in Europe" Duke UP, 1968
Kasson, Joy S., "Artistic Voyagers. Europe and the American Imagination in the Works of Irving, Allston, Cole, Cooper, and Hawthorne" Greeenwood P, 1982
Lease, Benjamin, "Anglo-American Encounters. England and the Rise of American Literature" Cambridge UP, 1981
Lockwood, Allison, "Passionate Pilgrims. The American Traveler in Great Britain, 1800-1914" Associated UP, 1981
Mulvey, Christopher, "Anglo-Amercan Landscapes. A Study of Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature" Cambridge UP, 1983
Mulvey, Christopher, "Transatlantic Manners. Social Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Travel Literature" Cambridge UP, 1990
Stowe, William W., "Going Abroad. European Travel in Nineteenth-Century American Culture" Princeton UP, 1994
Vance, William L., "America's Rome" vols 1-2 Yale UP, 1989
Wright, Nathalia, "American Novelists in Italy. The Discoverers: Allston to James" U of Pennsylvania P, 1965
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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