BA Seminar: Varieties of the American Short Story 4219-ZS041
1. Presentation of the first draft of introduction and discussion (2 students)
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5. Ditto (1 person). General commentary: advisor.
6. Presentation of the first draft of the first analytical chapter (2 students)
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10. Ditto (1 person). General commentary: advisor.
11. Presentation of the first draft of the second analytical chapter and conclusions (2students)
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15. Ditto (1 person). General commentary: advisor.
Type of course
obligatory courses
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
The student knows and understands:
- The place and significance of cultural and religious studies in the system of sciences, their subject-specific and methodological specificity, their relationships with other disciplines and fields, and directions of development.
- Terminology, methods, tools, and data acquisition techniques, selected traditions, research schools, and directions of development appropriate for cultural and religious studies to research cultural and social phenomena in the United States.
- The main trends and works of American literature, the fundamental elements of American culture that are an integral part of the study of North American culture, as well as the theoretical and methodological foundations of literary studies.
- Basic principles and concepts of intellectual property protection and copyright law, primarily concerning plagiarism and academic ethics.
The student is able to:
- Formulate and solve complex research problems, recognize, understand, interpret, and analyze the causes and course of cultural phenomena in the United States using sources and standard research methods and tools within the humanities.
- Interpret works of American literature in the context of broadly understood American culture.
- Communicate on American studies topics related to the United States using specialized terminology in English and advanced information and communication techniques.
- Participate, under the supervision of a scientific advisor, in the preparation of research projects (individual and group) in the field of broadly understood cultural studies of the United States.
Social competences:
The student is ready to:
- Utilize the acquired interdisciplinary knowledge of American studies concerning the United States to formulate their own opinions.
- Utilize the acquired interdisciplinary knowledge of the culture and literature of the USA to formulate their own opinions.
Assessment criteria
Introduction: 20 pts; chapter I: 20 pts; chapter II and conclusions: 30 pts, discussion: 30 pts.
Bibliography
Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Ernest Hemingway, 49 Stories
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, [selected stories]
William Faulkner, Collected Stories
Carson McCullers, Collected Stories
Flannery O'Connor, Complete Stories
Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Dominick LaCapra, Historia w okresie przejściowym
Antologia studiów nad traumą, red. Tomasz Łysak
Sigmund Freud, „Mourning and Melancholia”
Eva Illouz, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
G.R. Thompson, Poe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales
Wolfgang Kayser, The Grotesque
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