Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Amerikanisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BMI-AMED-203E
- Cím
- Amerikai irodalmi elméletek
- Tervezett félév
- Tavaszi
- Meghirdetve
- 2023/24/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- An introductory course to American Studies, this seminar aims at developing a complex understanding of American culture by reading selected foundational texts, primarily critical, on topics ranging from the colonial times to the present.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- The course will cover some of the most relevant topics of the field, among them, puritan America, democratic evangelism, religious awakenings, manifest destiny and its alternatives, class in American society, the American dream, gender and individualism, women’s culture, old and new American Studies.
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- In addition to evaluating how students have acquired knowledges produced in the assigned texts, critical reading and comprehension skills, critical writing skills, and academic writing skills will also be assessed (on the basis of class participation, submitted outlines and summaries, a research paper, and the final oral exam).
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Amy Kaplan, “Manifest Domesticity” Carroll Smith Rosenberg, “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America” Enikő Bollobás, “Fabulae of Old and New: New American Studies and the Postmodern Episteme” Gene Wise, “‘Paradigm Dramas’ in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement” Godfrey Hodgson, The Myth of American Exceptionalism Gwyn Prins, “On Condis and Coolth” Jack Zipes “Breaking the Disney Spell,” in Maria Tatar, ed. The Classic Fairy Tales, 332-352 Jerry Griswold, “There’s No Place But Home,” Antioch Review (1987) Justin Buckley Dyer, ed., American Soul—The Contested Legacy of The Declaration of Independence (chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, 15, 25, 26, 29; pp. 20, 43-45, 53-58, 98-107, 121-129) Linda Kerber, “Can a Woman Be an Individual? The Discourse of Self-Reliance” Linda Kerber, “Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History” Maria Tatar, “Why Fairy Tales Matter: The Performative and the Transformative,” Western Folklore Michael Broek, “Were It a New-Made World” Paul Fussell, Class Paul Lauter, Is Class an American Study? in Rowe, Concise Companion to American Studies, 74-91 Philip F. Gura, “Puritan Origins,” in Rowe, Concise Companion to American Studies, 19-35 William G. McLoughlin, “Pietism and the American Character”