• Course description
• Course objectives
• Credit requirements
• Class contents
• Mandatory reading
• Recommended texts
• Mandatory films
• Useful links
• Forum

 

Course description

 

Course objectives

Issues raised in the course of the lectures are supposed to provide students with background information a) to be used in the conversatorium and b) to help them in their research.

Credit requirements

 Credit based on attendance

Class contents

1) The American Revolution and its Consequences (the development of press and political writing, in search of a formula of national literature);
2) The American West and the Discourse of the Frontier;
3) Romanticization of the Past/Romantic Misrepresenation of Cultural Others
4) The Birth of the Gothic and the Transformation of Aesthetic Paradigms;
5) History and Literature: On Dangerous Supplements and Discursive (Hi)Stories
6-7) The Literature of the American Renaissance: Transcendentalism;
8-9) Existentialism in the Literature of the American Renaissance;
10) The Civil War and the Birth of Realism;
11) American Naturalism: Toward Modernism
12) Credits

Mandatory reading

• N. Baym et al. (eds.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vols. I and II, New York, 1994;
  
• P. Lauter et al. (eds.), The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vols. I and II, Lexington, 1990;
  
• Inne dostÄ™pne antologie literatury amerykaÅ„skiej zawierajÄ…ce omawiane teksty;
  
• A. Kopcewicz, M. Sienicka, Historia literatury Stanów Zjednoczonych w zarysie, T. I i II, Warszawa, 1983;
  
• A. Salska, red. Historia literatury amerykaÅ„skiej XX wieku. T. I i II, Kraków, 2003;
  
• E. Elliott, ed. The Columbia Literary History of the United States, New York, 1998;
  
• E. Elliott, ed. The Columbia History of the American Novel, New York, 1991;
  
• T. Pyzik, red. Readings in American Civilization (wyd. II), UstroÅ„, 2001;
  
• T. Pyzik, red. Wielkie tematy literatury amerykaÅ„skiej (wszystkie dostÄ™pne tomy serii), Katowice

Useful links