Historia Literatury Amerykańskiej

Sylabus - studia dzienne

Mgr Paulina Surniak

Wykład 1

Puritanism

- William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation (providential view of history, as historical text)

- Ann Bradstreet Upon the Burning of Our House, To My Dear and Loving Husband, The Author the Her Book (as Puritan texts, imagery)

Enlightenment

- Benjamin Franklin Autobiography (self-made man, American dream)

Wykład 2

The Turn of the Century / Romantic short stories

- Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle (mock-gothic, Rip as a prototype of American hero, landscape, anti-Franklinian hero)

- Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven

Wykład 3

Transcendentalism

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature, Henry David Thoreau Walden

Romanticism

- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

Wykład 4

Romantic poetry

- Emily Dickinson - selected poems, Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass

Wykład 5

Realism

Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Henry James Daisy Miller

Wykład 6

Modernism / Jazz Age

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Contemporary fiction - an overview

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