Voyages of the Self. Parallels in American Painting and Literature 4219-RS287
1. Introduction
2. John Singleton Copley and Jonathan Edwards
3. Washington Allston as writer and painter
4. John Quidor and Washington Irving
5. Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant
6. Fitz Hugh Lane and Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. Frederic Edwin Church and Walt Whitman
8. Winslow Homer and William James
9. Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane
10. Albert Pinkham Ryder and Emily Dickinson
11. Edward Hopper and Charles Reznikoff
12. Larry Rivers and Frank O'Hara
13. Jackson Pollock and Charles Olson
14. Final test
Type of course
elective courses
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge: a graduate knows and understands in-depth
K_W01 - the significance of cultural studies, religion studies, history, literary studies, sociology, political science and administration, their position in the scholarship system, the specificity of these fields, and their relations to other fields of study within humanities and social sciences; the paradigm of interdisciplinary research and the need to integrate perspectives and research methods in the field of American Studies
K_W02 - s elect facts, objects, processes, creations, and cultural phenomena related to the Americas, as well as theories explaining the complex dependencies between them, which constitute advanced general knowledge from the field of cultural and religion studies; historical, social, political, and economic contexts characteristic to the cultural lives of theAmericas
K_W08 - historical processes, important figures in the history of the Americas and significant events which led to the emergence and development of cultures, societies, and states in the Americas; theoretical and methodological basics of historical research
Skills: a graduate is able to
K_U02 - apply appropriate research methods and tools, adjust existing tools and methods as well as develop new ones for the purposes of interdisciplinary American Studies
K_U03 - recognize, understand, describe, interpret, explain, and analyze in-depth the causes, consequences, and the course of processes and phenomena existing in the Americas
K_U12 - prepare and give a presentation using advanced information and communication techniques in English / Spanish, on topics related to American Studies, as well as write papers in English/Spanish
Social skills: a graduate is prepared to
K_K01 - critically assess their own knowledge and the content they consume on the Americas
K_K02 - use the interdisciplinary knowledge they gained in the field of American Studies in order to formulate their own opinions
K_K07 - develop professionally, continue learning and engage in the development of American Studies
Assessment criteria
Participation in class dicussion 50%
Final test 50%
Bibliography
American Art of the 1960s. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1991.
Michael Fried, Realism, Writing, Disfiguration. On Thomas Eakins and Stephen
Crane. U of Chicago Press, 1987.
David Lehman, The Last Avant-Garde. The Making of the New York School of Poets.
Anchor Books, 1998.
Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture. American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875.
Oxford UP, 1980.
Barbara Novak, American Painting of the Nineteenth Century. Oxford UP, 2007.
Barbara Novak, Voyages of the Self. Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art
and Literature. Oxford UP, 2009.
Calvin Tompkins, The Bride and the Bachelors. Five Masters of the Avant-Garde.
Viking Press, 1965.
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