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History of American literature

Informacje ogólne

Kod przedmiotu: 1.2.D3.EP.38
Kod Erasmus / ISCED: (brak danych) / (brak danych)
Nazwa przedmiotu: History of American literature
Jednostka: Wydział Filologiczny
Grupy: Studia stacjonarne
Studia stacjonarne
Punkty ECTS i inne: (brak) Podstawowe informacje o zasadach przyporządkowania punktów ECTS:
  • roczny wymiar godzinowy nakładu pracy studenta konieczny do osiągnięcia zakładanych efektów uczenia się dla danego etapu studiów wynosi 1500-1800 h, co odpowiada 60 ECTS;
  • tygodniowy wymiar godzinowy nakładu pracy studenta wynosi 45 h;
  • 1 punkt ECTS odpowiada 25-30 godzinom pracy studenta potrzebnej do osiągnięcia zakładanych efektów uczenia się;
  • tygodniowy nakład pracy studenta konieczny do osiągnięcia zakładanych efektów uczenia się pozwala uzyskać 1,5 ECTS;
  • nakład pracy potrzebny do zaliczenia przedmiotu, któremu przypisano 3 ECTS, stanowi 10% semestralnego obciążenia studenta.

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Język prowadzenia: angielski
Rodzaj przedmiotu:

obowiązkowe

Literatura uzupełniająca:

Baym, N. The Norton Anthology American Literature (two vols.). New York: W.W. Norton,1989

Bradley, S. et. al. eds. The American Tradition in Literature. New York: Random House, 1981.

Cunliffe, M. The Literature of the United States. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.

Lauter, P. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2. Lexington: Heath, 1994

Lauter, P. The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Colonial Period To 1800, Volume A. Lexington: Heath, 1994

Salska, A. Historia Literatury Amerykańskiej XX w. (two vols). Kraków: Universitas, 2003.


Skrócony opis:

The class is a survey course of American literature starting from the beginning of the 17th century up to the 19th century, including Romanticism and the transitional period between Romanticism and Realism. Major goals of the course are:

- to convey the knowledge of the ideological and aesthetic hallmarks of Puritan literature, the Enlightenment and Romanticism;

- to present major problems, currents and motifs characteristic of discussed periods of American literature;

- to place the cultural heritage of the United States of America in the broader context of the world’s heritage;

- to shed light on interconnections between the American literary and philosophical heritage and the world’s literary and philosophical heritage;

- to make students apply basic terminology used in literary studies and related discipline

ECTS points: 2

Contact hours

1 ECTS: 30hh attending classes

0,5 ECTS: 10h consultations

Self - study

0,5 ECTS:15h self-study

Contact: tlewandowski@uni.opole.pl

Pełny opis:

1. Colonial literature:

John Smith, A True Relation of Virginia, The Generall Historie of Virginia, depictions of Pocahontas

John Winthrop, “The Modell of Christian Charity,” The History of New England

Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

2. Later Colonial literature and the Revolutionary period:

Johnathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (13 Virtues), The Way to Wealth

Thomas Paine/Thomas Jefferson, Common Sense/the Declaration of Independence

3. The Rise of National Literature:

Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "Rip Van Winkle"

James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, The Last of the Mochicans

Edgar Alan Poe, "The Raven," "The Fall of the House of Usher"

4. Romanticism and Transcendentalism:

Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience," Walden; Or Life in the Woods

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter, "Young Goodman Brown"

Herman Melville, Moby Dick, "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street."

5. Literature, Slavery, and the Civil War period:

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge of Courage

6. Realism:

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy

Henry James, "The Turn of the Screw," Daisy Miller

7. 19th-Century American Poetry:

John Greenleaf Whittier, "Our Fellow Countrymen in Chains", "The Hunters of Men," "Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyl"

Emily Dickinson, "I'm Nobody. Who are you?", "Because I could not stop for death", "Tell all the truth but tell it slant", "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"

Walt Whitman, "O Captain, my Captain!", "Oh Me! Oh Life!", "Song of Myself", "I Sing the Body Electric"

8. The Lost Generation:

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

9. The Great Depression, the Postwar Novel, and the Beats:

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men

J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Jack Kerouac/Allen Ginsburg, On the Road / "Howl"

10. Ethnic American literature:

Zitkala-Sa, Atlantic Monthly Trilogy, Old Indian Legends

Ralph Ellison / Richard Wright, The Invisible Man / Native Son

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

11. The Postmodern Novel:

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Don DeLillo, White Noise

Literatura:

High, Peter B. An Outline of American Literature. New York: Pearson, 1984.

Lewicki, Z. American Literature. American Literature Department, Institute of English, University of Warsaw/US Embassy, Warsaw, 2000.

VanSpanckeren, K. Outline of American Literature. Washington: US State Department, 1994.

Efekty uczenia się:

Knowledge

Graduate knows:

1. the ideological and aesthetic hallmarks of such literary periods as Puritan literature, the Enlightenment and Romanticism (k-W-1 / P6S_WG)

2. the theories, methodology and general and terminology of literature (k-W-3 / P6S_WG)

Skills

Graduate can:

3. present major problems, currents and motifs characteristic of discussed periods of American literature; (k-U-1 / P6S_UW)

4. analyse texts and do research using knowledge of literature (k-U-2 / P6S_UW)

5. apply basic terminology used in literary studies and related disciplines (k-K-4 / P6S_UK)

Social competences

Graduate:

6. is able to shed light on mutual interconnections between the American literary and philosophical heritage as well as the world’s literary and philosophical heritage (k-K-1 / P6S_KK)

7. is ready to place the cultural heritage of the United States of America in the broader context of the world’s literary, philosophical and cultural heritage (k-K-4 / P6S_KR)

Metody i kryteria oceniania:

Forms of evaluation

Written test – outcomes: 1,2, 4,5, 6, 7

Presentation – outcomes: 3,5,6

Criteria of evaluation

Exam marks are graded according to the following framework:

0 – 50 points / grade 2,0 (fail): 0–49%

51 – 60 points / grade 3,0 (average): 50–60%

61 – 70 points / grade 3,5 (plus average): 61–70%

71 – 80 points / grade 4,0 (good): 71–80%

81 – 90 points / grade 4,5 (plus good): 81–90%

91 – 100 points / grade 5,0 (very good): 91–100%

Presentations are graded according to the following three criteria:

1) analysis and interpretation and presentation of selected materials,

2) application of terminology used in literary studies

3) contextualization of American literature in world history

grade 2,0 (fail)

grade 3,0 (average)

grade 3,5 (plus average)

grade 4,0 (good)

grade 4,5 (plus good)

grade 5,0 (very good)

Written test – 75% / outcomes:

Presentation – 25% / outcomes: 3,5,6

All grades are discussed with students individually.

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