American Literature 1 3301-L1AL1
The course is a survey of the most important tendencies and phenomena in the history of American literature from traditional Native American oral narratives to the literature of the 1920s. The material for discussion is arranged chronologically and the thematic core of the course is as follows: colonial literature, the Enlightenment, romantic fiction, transcendentalism, nineteenth-century poetry, realism, naturalism, modernist poetry, and the Harlem Renaissance.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
K_W04 the graduate has familiarity with American literature in connection with historical and cultural processes, at an advanced level
K_U04 analyze at an advanced level works of American literature in connection with historical and cultural processes
K_K01 the graduate is ready to critically appraise their knowledge and content obtained from various sources in the field of American literature
Assessment criteria
Being prepared for classes (reading the assigned texts)
Participation in class discussion
A maximum of 3 absences is allowed
Final test: written test
Make-Up: written test or spoken exam.
Practical placement
N/A
Bibliography
Tsimshian tribe
“Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures Her”
Anne Bradstreet
“Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House”
Edward Taylor
“Upon the Sweeping Flood”
Jonathan Edwards
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Benjamin Franklin
“Continuation of the Account of my Life, begun at Passy, near Paris 1784” (from Autobiography)
Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
“What Is an American?”
Washington Irving
“Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Young Goodman Brown”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Self-Reliance”
Henry David Thoreau
“Resistance to Civil Government”
Herman Melville
“Bartleby the Scrivener”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The Cask of Amontillado”
Walt Whitman
“Song of Myself” (parts 1-6)
Emily Dickinson
poems 258, 712, 986
Henry James
Daisy Miller
Edith Wharton
“Roman Fever”
Mark Twain
Huck Finn (chapters 1-8)
Jack London
“To Build a Fire”
Stephen Crane
“Open Boat”
Robert Frost
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Ezra Pound
“In a Station of the Metro”
W. C. Williams
“The Young Housewife”
H.D.
“Oread”
Langston Hughes
“Mulatto”
“Harlem”
Zora Neale Hurston
“Sweat”
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