Course title: Topics in American Studies 1: Church and State in American History
Instructor: Prof. Douglas Ambrose (Fulbright Scholar)
ECTS credits: 6
Status: Elective
Language: English
Semester: 7^th or 9^th
Enrolment requirements: enrolment in the 7^th and/or 9^th semester

Course Purpose:
This seminar examines the fascinating relations between religion and politics in colonial British North America and the United States from the colonial era through the nineteenth century.  Beginning with the biblical, ancient, and medieval contexts of church/state relations, we will devote the bulk of our time to an examination of the working out of those relations in the colonial, early national, and antebellum eras.  We will then briefly consider some postbellum developments.  Throughout the course, we will focus on the ways in which American church/state relations demonstrated both continuity with the larger Western history of such relations and a distinct “American” situation and response.
Format:
We will conduct the class primarily as a seminar.  On Wednesdays, I will present a lecture that will provide the context for our Friday seminar discussions.  The Wednesday lectures are not to be monologues; I encourage questions and discussion throughout my lecture.  Seminar meetings depend on the active, informed, and collegial participation of the seminarians—the students.
Showing up does not constitute participation; you must thoughtfully join the conversation.
Course Readings:
We will read a variety of primary and secondary materials. The required readings will be available either on Omega or online.
Course Requirements:
I expect students to attend all class meetings, complete the required readings before our Wednesday meetings, and participate in discussions.  All students will complete a 12 to 15-page paper, based on primary sources, on a topic related to church/state relations in pre-twentieth-century American history.  Each student will determine his or her paper topic in consultation with me.  There will also be a final examination.
Evaluation:
I will evaluate your performance based on attendance, class participation, the research paper, and the final examination.

Course title: A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature
Instructor: Asst. Prof. Iva Polak
ECTS credits: 6
Status: elective
Semester: 7^th and 9^th  semester
Enrollment requirements: enrollment in the 7^th and/or 9^th semester
Course description: The course offers a historical survey of fantasy in British literature and includes discussion on the most seminal theoretical works on fantasy and the fantastic. Texts belonging to the earlier periods will be discussed in the framework of fantasy as a specific historical mode o whereas texts appearing alongside the rise of the novel, i.e. from Romanticism onwards, will be analyzed against the theory of the fantastic as a prose genre. Some literary works are analyzed alongside their cinematic adaptations. Treatment of fantasy and the fantastic will raise issues such as mimesis, rhetoric of the real and unreal, reasons for early appearance of fantasy in literature  and its parallel existence with works written into literary realism.  Analysis of selected text will be based on the introduction of terminology relevant for this field, such as fantasy, fantastic, the fantastic and its neighbouring (sub)genres.
Objectives: Strengthening students’ awareness of the existence of fantasy from the very beginnings of English literature; detection of shifts in the meaning and importance of the fantastic in literature; a clearer understanding of the postulates of the fantastic.
Course requirements: The final grade is based on continuous assessment which includes regular attendance, preparation for and participation in class, writing small assignments, and timely submission of the final paper. The paper is worth 70% and other elements of continuous assessment are worth 30% of the final grade. Students must meet all requirements of continuous assessment.

Week by week schedule:
WEEK 1
Mimesis and literary canon
Short film: A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune), Georges Méliès (1902)
WEEK 2
What is fantastic in fantasy. Genre theory (Todorov/Chanady/Brooke-Rose)
WEEK 3
The problem of the fantastic in the Anglo-Saxon (OE) literature
Beowulf , c. 8^th c. (excerpts) – historical context, implicit/encoded reader; heroic or fantastic epic
WEEK 4
The problem of the fantastic in the Middle-English Period
Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’ (The Canterbury Tales) c. 1380-1400 – historical context, fable, fantasy of the so-called “simple forms” (Einfache Formen)
WEEK 5
Appropriation of fantasy in the Early Modern Period
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1610-1 – romance; construction of the supernatural; additional cinematic adaptations (fantasy, SF)
WEEK 6
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1595 – application of Todorov and Chanady; N. Frye’s “Green World”
WEEK 7
Appropriation of fantasy in the Neoclassical Period
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726) (excerpts) – 18^th c. novel, Menippean satire, fantasy and allegory, location of the 4^th journey; the problem of utopia (Plato, More)
WEEK 8
Fantasy and the Victorian Period
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  (1865) – ‘amoral’ Victorian fantasy literature; construction of meaning (Jabberwocky); source of the supernatural
WEEK 9
Constitution of SF as a genre
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) – ‘impure’ SF, novum (D. Suvin)
[Film: The Time Machine (1960), dir. George Pal]
WEEK 10
Rise of SF in the UK and USA
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)– dystopia, SF
[Film: Fahrenheit 451 (1966), dir. François Truffaut]
WEEK 11
J.R.R. Tolkien – epic fantasy, high fantasy; Tolkien on fantasy
WEEK 12
Tolkien cont.
WEEK 13
Alasdair Gray, Lanark (1981) – fantasy and realism; metafiction, intertextuality, postmodernism
WEEK 14
Alasdair Gray, Lanark (1981) – cont.

Reading list:
Novels:
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, IV voyage
Lewis Carroll, Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Alasdair Gray, Lanark
Note: Analysis of literary texts covering the period until the rise of the novel is based on selected excerpts.  It is presumed that English lit. graduate students read A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest by W. Shakespeare during their undergrad. studies.

Theory:
– Sandner, David (ed). Fantastic Literature. A Critical Reader, Praeger, 2004. (selection)
– Todorov, Tzvetan. The Fantastic. A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, Cornell UP,1975.
– Chanady, Amaryll Beatrice. Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved Versus Unresolved Antinomy, Garland Publishing Inc, 1985.
– Brooke-Rose, Christine. A Rhetoric of the Unreal. Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Fantastic, CUP, 1981. (excerpts)
– Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy. The Literature of Subversion, Routledge, 1981.
– Tolkien, J.R.R. The Monster and the Critics and Other Essays, HarperCollins, 2006. (selection)
– Čapek, Karel. In Praise of Newspapers and Other Essays on the Margin of Literature, Allen&Uwin, 1951. (selection)

Additional materials are received in the class.

Course title: The History and the Paradigms of American Studies
Instructor: Prof Stipe Grgas
ECTS credits: 6
Status: mandatory for American specialization; otherwise elective
Semester: I or III
Enrollment requirements: enrollment into the graduate program
Course description: The course explores the history of the development of American Studies and the different paradigms that were initially employed in reading the United States. To a large extent this phase corresponds to the myth and symbol school. The course offers readings of texts that are representative of the following key paradigms: errand into the wilderness, “nature’s nation”, virgin land, the machine in the garden, the democratic polity, Brooklyn Bridge as symbol and fact.

Objectives: The objective of the course is to acquaint the students with these founding paradigms, to explore the procedures and methodology that was involved in their construction, to illustrate how they can be used in understanding US identity and to point to the possibilities of critically questioning their veracity and their ideological bias.

Course requirements: attendance, continual evaluation, oral presentations, written seminar paper and a written exam at the end of the course.

Week by week schedule: interdisciplinarity as a method, the establishment of American studies as a peculiar discipline, errand into the wilderness, “nature’s nation”, virgin land, the machine in the garden, the democratic polity, Brooklyn Bridge as symbol and fac.

Reading: The students are required to read a selection of texts from the work of the following authors: Perry Miller, Henry Nash Smith, Leo Marx, F.O. Matthiessen, , Alan Trachtenberg and others.

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Course title: Milton
Instructor: Asst. Prof. Tomislav Brlek (Comparative Literature Department)
ECTS points: 6
Language: English
Duration: 1 semester (1^st or 3^td)
Status: elective
Enrollment requirements: enrollment in 1^st or 3^td semester
Evaluation method: exam

Syllabus
1. Introduction
2. L’Allegro and Il Penseroso
3. Lycidas
4. Comus
5. Samson Agonistes
6. Paradise Lost, Book I
7. Paradise Lost, Book II
8. Paradise Lost, Book III
9. Paradise Lost, Book IV
10. Paradise Lost, Book V
11. Paradise Lost, Book VI
12. Paradise Lost, Books VII-VIII
13. Paradise Lost, Book IX
14. Paradise Lost, Book X
15. Paradise Lost, Books XI-XII
16. Concluding Remarks

Reading list:
John Milton: Poetical Works, ed. Douglas Bush (Oxford, 1966)
MILTON: A READER (available from the Library)
Stanley Fish: Surprised by Sin: The Reader in “Paradise Lost”, 2^nd ed. (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1997)
Stanley Fish: How Milton Works (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2001)
Northrop Frye: Five Essays on Milton’s Epics (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966)
Barbara K. Lewalski: The Life of John Milton, rev.ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)

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Course title: English Baroque Poetry
Instructor: Prof. Janja Ciglar-Žanić
ECTS credits: 6
Status: elective
Semester: 7^th and 8_^th semester
Enrollment requirements: completed 6^th semester
Course description:The course will be concerned with the earlier seventeenth-century English poetry from the point of view of its close relationship/ identity with the European poetry of the time. Baroque will be understood as a literary period dominating the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth century in the majority of European cultures including, the discussions will be attempt to show, English literature of the time. Concettism as its main feature will be studied together with other rhetorical figures which hallmark the poetic period of Baroque. Special attention will be paid to the so-called Metaphysical school in English poetry which occurs at the beginning of the seventeenth century but other poets outside the original designation “Metaphysical” will also be studied. Both secular and devotional poetry of the period will be analyzed extensively.
Objectives: The main objective of the course will be to re-locate English earlier seventeenth-century poetry from the Renaissance proper into post-Renaissance movement known in the majority of European countries as Baroque. The study of poetics and rhetoric of the mentioned poetry will be in the centre of attention in this literary-historical procedure.
Course requirements: Class work (regular attendance at lectures and active class participation), various section-specific assignments (an oral presentation), and a final essay—style exam.

Week by week schedule:
Week 1: Introduction: Baroque as a literary period.
Week 2: Baroque (continued).
Week 3: Terms and concepts, comparison: Mannerist, Baroque, Metaphysical.
Week 4: Concettism in English Baroque poetry.
Week 5: The Elizabethan world picture as a background of Baroque imagery.
Week 6: Petrarchan topoi and their Baroque transformations.
Week 7: John Donne: from Songs and Sonets (“The Canonization”, “The Sun Rising”, “The Good Morrow”, and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”).
Week 8: John Donne: from Holy Sonnets.
Week 9: George Herbert: from The Temple (“Easter Wings”, “Jordan” (I), “Jordan” (II), “The Pulley”, “The Forerunners”, and “Virtue”).
Week 10: Henry Vaughan: from Silex Scintillans (“The Retreate” and “Regeneration”).
Week 11: Richard Crashaw: from Carmen Deo Nostro (“The Weeper”).
Week 12: Andrew Marvell: from Collected Poems (“To His Coy Mistress” and “The Garden”).
Week 13: Thomas Traherne: from Commentaries of Heaven (“Shadows in the Water”).
Week 14: Ben Jonson: from Underwood (“My Picture Left in Scotland”).
Week 15: Final exam.

Required reading:
Gardner, Helen (ed), The Metaphysical Poets, Harmondsworth [etc.]: Penguin Books, 1988.
Grierson, Herbert J. C (ed), Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler, London, Oxford & New York: Oxford UP, 1972.
Sidney, Philip, An Apology for Poetry, in D. J. Enright & Ernst de Chickero (eds.), English Critical Texts, London: Oxford UP, 1962; 12-17.
Johnson, Samuel, Lives of the English Poets, vol. 1, London: Oxford UP, 1961; 3-49.
Eliot, T. S, “The Metaphysical Poets”, in: D. J. Enright & Ernst de Chickero (eds), English Critical Texts, London: Oxford UP, London, 1962, 302-311.
Ciglar-Žanić, Janja, Domišljato stvoren svijet: Barok u engleskoj književnosti, Zagreb: Slap, 2008.
Ciglar-Žanić, Janja. “Fatal Fascination or Calculated Choice: The Conceit in Seventeenth Century English Poetry”, Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia 31-31, 1986/ 87; 3-20.
Ciglar-Žanić, Janja. “Koliko je metafizička engleska metafizička poezija?”, Umjetnost riječi 1, Zagreb, 1988; 73-92.
Ciglar-Žanić, Janja. “Barokno pjesništvo, englesko i hrvatsko: značenje nekih analogija”, Književna smotra, XXI, nos. 69-72, 1988; 165-172.
Ciglar-Žanić, Janja. “Neki aspekti engleskog književnog baroka: Formalni manirizmi i njihove funkcije u engleskom postrenesansnom pjesništvu”, in Fališevac, Dunja, and Živa Benčić (eds), Književni barok, Zagreb: Zavod za znanost o književnosti, 1988; 191-223.
Curtius, Ernst Robert, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1973; 273-301.
Ford, Boris (ed), From Donne to Marvell: The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, 1988.
Kravar, Zoran, “Književnost 17. stoljeća i pojam ‘barok’”, in Fališevac, Dunja, and Živa Benčić (eds), Književni barok, Zagreb: Zavod za znanost o književnosti, 1988; 7-48.
Pavličić, Pavao, “Manirizam i barok: jedno ili dvoje?”, in Fališevac, Dunja, and Živa Benčić (eds), Književni barok, Zagreb: Zavod za znanost o književnosti, 1988; 49-71.
Praz, Mario. The Flaming Heart, New York: The Norton Library, 1973; 204-263.
Segel, Harold B. The Baroque Poem: A Comparative Survey, New York: Dutton Paperback, 1974; 12-142.
Warnke, Frank J, Versions of Baroque: Terms and Concepts, New Haven & London: Yale UP, 1975; 1-20.

Recommended reading:
Empson, William, Seven Types of Ambiguity, London: Chatto & Windus, 1956.
Fališevac, Dunja, Poezija Dživa Bunića Vučića (PhD dissertation), Zagreb, 1983.
Forster, Leonard, The Icy Fire, London: Cambridge UP, 1979.
Hocke, Gustav René, Svijet kao labirint: manira i manija u evropskoj umjetnosti od 1520 do 1650 i u suvremenosti, translated by Nadežda Čačinović—Puhovski, Zagreb: Biblioteka August Cesarec, 1991.
Keast, William R (ur), Seventeenth-Century English Poetry: modern essays in criticism, New York: Oxford UP, 1962.
Leishman, J. B, The Art of Marvell’s Poetry, London: Hutchinson, 1972.
Lovejoy, Arthur O. The great chain of being: a study of the history of an idea. Cambridge (Mass) & London: Harvard UP, 1964.
Kravar, Zoran, Studije o hrvatskom književnom baroku, Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Matice Hrvatske, 1975.
Pavličić, Pavao, Rasprave of hrvatskoj baroknoj kjiževnosti, Split: Čakavski sabor, 1979.
Stein, Arnold. John Donne’s Lyrics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962.
Sypher, Wylie, Four Stages of Renaissance Style: transformations in art and literature: 1400-1700, New York: Garden City & Doubleday, 1955.
Tuve, Rosemond. Elizabethan and Metaphysical Imagery: Renaissance poetic and twentieth-century critics, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1972.
Vendler, Helen. The Poetry of George Herbert, Cambridge (Mass) and London: Harvard UP, 1975.
Wellek, René (ed), Concepts of criticism, Introduction by Stephena G. Nicholsa, Jr, New Haven & London: Yale UP, 1963.
Willey, Basil, The Seventeenth-Century Background: studies in the thought of the age in relation to poetry and religion, Harmondsworth & Ringwood: Penguin Books and Chatto & Windus, 1972.
Witherspoon,, Alexander M, and F. J. Warnke, Seventeenth—Century Prose and Poetry, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.

Course title:  Modern British Novel and the British Empire
Instructor: Prof. Borislav Knežević
ECTS credits: 6
Status: elective
Semester: 7^th and 9^th 
Enrollment requirements:  Enrollment in the graduate programme
Course description:  In this course we will read a selection of British modernist novels (Conrad, Joyce, Tagore).  Our thematic focus will be on the literary uses of the British Empire, imperialism and colonialism in those novels.  We will deal with characteristics of modernism as a period in literary history, and the ways in which the selected novels exemplify such characteristics.  Much of our discussions will center on themes articulated by postcolonial criticism (the relationship between the metropole and the colony; going native; writing about imperial others; writing as an imperial other, construction of gender in colonial societies and discourses, etc.).  The course will involve a good deal of reading in imperial history and postcolonial criticism.
Objectives: The course is designed to facilitate active student engagement with issues in literary interpretation and history, as well as to create a structured theoretical context for analytical writing on literary subjects. offers an introduction to some of the key texts of British modern novel, as well as into postcolonial studies as one of the most important types of contemporary literary study.  Like other diploma level seminars, this one also focuses on improving the skills of analyzing literary texts.
Course requirements: The grade is based on a written essay at the end of term (5-6) pages, a mid-term quiz and a quiz at the end of term. 

Week by week schedule:
1. week: Introduction to modernism. Periodization, status of the novel as a genre, the historical context of imperialism.  Said’s concept of orientalism. McClintock and the question of postcolonial theory.
2. week: Kipling.
3. week: Kipling  Cohn: representations of colonial authority.  Conrad, and European imperialism in Africa.
4. week: Conrad. Achebe, and the issue of racism in literature.
5. week: Brantlinger, and the relationship between modernism and imperialism.
6. week: Joyce.
7. week: Mid-term quiz.
8. week: Joyce.
9. week: Joyce. Renan, and defining the nation.
10. week: Fanon, and the question of decolonization.
11 week: Tagore. The essay is due.
12 week: Tagore.
13 week: Nehru, and the question of development.
14 week. Second quiz.
15 week: Course summary.

 Reading:
A. Required reading:
Novels:
Rudyard Kipling, Kim
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
Criticism:
Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa.” Massachussets Review 18, 1997.
Patrick Brantlinger, The Rule of Darkness (excerpts). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Frantz Fanon, “The Wretched of the Earth” from Omar Dahbour, The Nationalism Reader. Humanity Books, 1995.
Anne McClintock, “The Angel of Progress: Pitfalls of the Term ‘Post-colonialism’”. 
Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory. A Reader (ed. Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman).  New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Edward Said, “Introduction” to Orientalism, New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
Bernard S. Cohn, “Representing Authority in Colonial India”, from Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Ernest Renan, “What is a Nation?”, The NationalismReader.
Jawaharlal Nehru, “The Discovery of India”, The Nationalism Reader.

B. Optional reading:
Anthony Apiah, “Topologies of Nativism” Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan, Literary Theory: An Anthology. London: Blackwell, 1998.
Carole Boyce Davies, “Migratory Subjectivities”. Literary Theory: An Anthology.
Fredric Jameson, “Modernism and Imperialism”, from Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990.

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