The hereby presented course focuses upon America in the narrow sense of the word. Anglophone US - oriented as it is, however, it offers a variety of perspectives, including, at times, those adopted by Transatlantic American Studies and Hemispheric American Studies. It is, nonetheless, a chronological survey of selected literary and paraliterary texts, beginning with Native American narratives and finishing with naturalism/modernism, all set against the background of the cultural history of the sociopolitical phenomenon which, following the Revolutionary War, became the United States.
The goal of the lectures in American Literary History is to allow the students to become acquainted with the development of literary trends in the context of the evolution of American culture since pre-Columbian and Early Colonial Periods until the end of 19th century. The lectures aim to present literary phenomena as tied into the process of transformations of dominant philosophical, political and social paradigms, which informed the subsequently emerging discourses of America. Credits obtained for the participation in the lecture are prerequisite for the admittance to the examination in the subject.
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