ECTS Informacijski paket za akademsku godinu 2024. / 2025.

Rat, rekonstrukcija, transformacija: američka književnost 1860-1914

 

Naziv
Rat, rekonstrukcija, transformacija: američka književnost 1860-1914
Organizacijska jedinica
Odsjek za anglistiku
ECTS
6
Šifra
87872
Semestri
ljetni
Nastavnici
Satnica
Predavanja
15
Seminar
30
Preduvjeti za upis i polaganje kolegija

Cilj
In the seminar we shall cover a period in American Literature variousy designated as the Age of Realism and Naturalism or the Gilded Age. Many scholars argue that it is during this period that the United States turned into a modern nation due, primarily, to their unprecedented industrial and economic growth. We shall look at the implications of these huge transformations and their reverberations in some of the exemplary literary and non-literary texts of the period. The four sections we shall be examining in greater detail are the echoes of the Civil War; the perils and pitfalls of post-war Reconstruction effort, and the question of race; economic relations and the way these affect social relations; and, finally, the emergence of new identities, both in the public and the private sphere.
Sadržaj
  1. Section 1: the Civil War and its aftermath Introduction
  2. Herman Melville: from Battle Pieces (1866; selection of poetry)
  3. Walt Whitman: from Drum-Taps and Memories of President Lincoln (1891-92; selection of poetry)
  4. Rebecca Harding Davis: Waiting for the Verdict (1868; novel; selected chapters)
  5. Section 2: The question of race and Reconstruction Introduction
  6. Mark Twain: Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894; novel)
  7. Charles Chesnutt: „The Wife of His Youth“ (1899; short story); „What Is a White Man?“ (1889; essay)
  8. Mid-term.
  9. Section 3: Matters of the economy Introduction
  10. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: The Silent Partner (1871; novel)
  11. Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906; novel)
  12. Section 4: Emergence of new subjects Introduction
  13. Abraham Cahan: „Yekl“ (1896; novella)
  14. Ezra Pound: „Hugh Selwyn Mauberly“ (1920; poetry, selection)
  15. Course evaluation. Final test.

Ishodi učenja
  1. Student će moći prepoznati i opisati osnovna obilježja književnoga razdoblja nakon američkoga Građanskog rata (realizam, naturalizam, modernizam).
  2. Student će moći analizirati i kritički razmatrati književna djela i kulturne procese u navedenome razdoblju.
  3. Student će moći smjestiti i kontekstualizirati navedeno razdoblje u kontekstu američke kulture i knjževnosti.
  4. Student će moći usmeno i pismeno komunicirati spoznaje te razviti samostalni argument na temelju zadane građe.
Metode podučavanja
predavanja, seminar
Metode ocjenjivanja
kontinuirana evaluacija, kolokviji, seminarski rad

Obavezna literatura
  1. Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought (1944), Boston: Beacon P, 1992. (selection)
  2. Sundquist, Eric. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature, Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. (selection)
  3. Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, New York: Hill and Wang, 1982. (selection)
  4. Knight, Peter. Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2016.
  5. Michaels, Walter Benn. The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.
Dopunska literatura

Izborni predmet na studijima
Stari studiji
  1. Anglistika, sveučilišni prijediplomski dvopredmetni studij, 4., 6. semestar