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.
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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
A written exam by the end of the spring semester.
Students must pass the practical classes before being allowed to take the exam.
Make-up exam: written test or spoken exam.
Bibliography
Malcolm Bradbury, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature.
Emory Elliott, ed. The Columbia Literary History of the United States
Kathryn VanSpanckeren, Outline of American Literature, GPA Publications, 2016.
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