General information
Course type | AMUPIE |
Module title | History of American literature |
Language | English |
Module lecturer | dr hab. Paweł Stachura, prof. UAM |
Lecturer's email | pawels@amu.edu.pl |
Lecturer position | Professor |
Faculty | Faculty of English |
Semester | 2022/2023 (summer) |
Duration | 15 |
ECTS | 3 |
USOS code | 15-HAL-AMU-PIE-11 |
Timetable
http://wa.amu.edu.pl/timetables/lato_2022_2023/teachers/index.html
Module aim (aims)
To make students familiar with canonical authors and their work, to present continuing traditional themes, symbols and stock characters, to develop students’ ability to interpret literary texts, to extend students’ knowledge of American history and culture, to cover a variety of genres and sub-genres included in the reading list, to further develop students’ language skills.
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
Sustained reading effort, readiness to discuss texts in class, basic terms of literary criticism and theory.
Syllabus
Week 1: Concepts and methodology of literary criticism
Week 2: Useful literature on American literary history
Week 3: Data collection and research protocols
Week 4: Planning a research project in literary history
Week 5: Acquisition of source material and critical literature
Week 6: Rhetorical analysis of American literary texts
Week 7: Diversity of American literature
Week 8: Interpretation of fiction
Reading list
Peter Conn. The Cambridge Illustrated History of American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1989.
Emory Elliott (ed.) Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1988.
Andrzej Kopcewicz, Marta Sienicka. Historia literatury Stanów Zjednoczonych w zarysie. Vols.
1, 2. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1982.
Agnieszka Salska (ed.) Historia literatury amerykańskiej XX wieku. Vols. 1, 2. Kraków:
Universitas, 2003.
Norton Anthology of American Literature. (Volume One and Two)
Bradley Sculley (et. al.) American Tradition in Literature (Volume One and Two)
Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of
American Literature. Penguin Books. 1992.
Stachura, Paweł. 2010. An Outline History of American Literature. Poznań. Wydawnictwo
Poznańskie.
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Richard Gray. 2004. A History of American Literature. Malden, USA, Oxford, UK, Carlton,
Australia. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Agata Preis-Smith. 2004. Kultura, tekst, ideologia. Dyskursy współczesnej amerykanistyki.
Kraków: Universitas.
- O. Matthiessen. The American Renaissance. London: Oxford UP, 1941. (IFA Library
Reference)
The Columbia Literary History of the United States, New York. 1990.
Emory Elliot at al. (ed.) The Columbia History of the American Novel and Poetry, New York:
1991 and 1993.
Parini, Jay (1948- ). (ed.) Millier, Brett Candlish. Red. The Columbia History of the American
Poetry. 1993.
Sacvan Bercovitch (ed.), associate ed. Cyrus R. K. Patell. The Cambridge History of American
literature. Vol. 1, 1590-1820. Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.
Pearce, Roy, Harvey. The Continuity of American Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University
Press. 1961.
Bigsby, Christopher William Edgar. Modern American drama, 1945-1990. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Bigsby, Christopher William Edgar. Modern American drama : 1945-2000. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.