Amerykańska proza modernistyczna II 3301-LA222
This lecture/course is designed as an overview of literary production in the United States designated as American Modernism. One of the most dynamic and prolific periods in American literary history, modernism is usually associated with stylistic innovation, theories of artistic purity and artistic independence as well as names such as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Anzia Yezierska, Wallace Thurman , Zora Neale Hurston or Ralph Ellison. This course aims not only to deepen students' understanding of the canonical American writing of the period 1900-1955 but also to juxtapose it against the so called "ethnic modernism." It also hopes to frame modernist artistc productions against political, social and artistic debates of the time. We will thus discuss the impact of new philosophical and scientific developments such as phenomenology, psychoanalysis or the science of eugenics, and explore the impact of two major totalitarian systems: communism and fascism. Moreover, we will trace the interdependence of literature and film with a special emphasis on the role early Hollywood exerted over literary imagination.
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Założenia (opisowo)
Efekty kształcenia
Student zdobywa zaawansowaną wiedzę na temat :Amerykańska proza modernistyczna II i rozwija swoje umiejętności analityczne.
Kryteria oceniania
Attendance (only three absences are permitted)
presentation
the final research paper
Literatura
William Faulkner, Light in August
Ernest Hemingway, Farewell to Arms
F. Scott Fitzgerald, short stories
Anita Loos Gentleman Prefer Blondes (excerpts and 1953 film with M. Monroe)
Nathaniel West, The Day of the Locust (the novel and the film)
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (novella and the film)
Gertrude Stein from Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Zora Neale Hurston, Anzia Yezierska -- selected short stories
Wallace Thurman, Infants of Spring
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Filmography:
The Great Dictator (dir. Charlie Chaplin)
Midnight in Paris (dir. Woody Allen)
Background Reading:
The Cambridge History of Modernism, ed. Vincent Sherry, Cambridge University Press, 2017. (selected chapters on moodle).
A History of the Modernist Novel, ed. Gregory Castle, Cambridge University Press, 2015 (selected chapters on moodle).
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism, ed. Walter Kalaidjian. Cambridge University Press, 2005 (selected chapters on moodle).
Peter Childs, Modernism, Routledge, 2000.
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