Literature and Culture: syllabi 2022/23 (archive)

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2022/23
Year 1 and 2

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1st and 3rd semester (winter)
Courses available for students enrolled in the 1st and 3rd semester
(A = American, B = British)
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Architext in postmodern British literature (Polić) (B) (20th c..) 6 ECTS
Modern British Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
English Baroque Poetry (
Brlek) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature (Polak) (B) (Early Modern) 6 ECTS

The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Šesnić) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS



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2nd and 4th semester (summer)
Courses available for students enrolled in the 2nd and 4th semester
(A = American, B = British)
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Anglophone Women’s Writing (Domines Veliki) (B) (20th c.)
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Šesnić) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Literature and the Visual: American Film, Narrative Theory and Psychoanalysis (Jukić) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Narrative DissemiNation of the Land of Oz (Polak) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
History and Memory in Contemporary American Novel (Šesnić) (A) (20. st.) 6 ECTS
Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
London in Modern Anglophone Women’s Literature (Klepač) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

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COURSES ARCHIVES

° Ac. year 2021/22

° Ac. year 2020/21

° Ac. year 2019/20

° Ac. year 2018/19

° Ac. year 2017/18

° Ac. year 2016/17

° Ac. year 2015/16
° Ac. year 2014/15
° Ac. year 2013/14

° Ac. year 2012/13
° Ac. year 2011/12

° Ac. year 2010/11

* before 2010:  http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/anglist-stari/w-syllabusi-eng/syllabus-svi%20eng.htm
* Please visit the page:
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
STUDIES AND COURSES: ECTS Information package


Note: In Courses archives: Year 1 and 2 are listed as 4 and 5; Semesters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are listed as 7, 8, 9 and 10.

 

 

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2021/22 (archive)

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2021/22
Year 1 and 2

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1st and 3rd semester (winter)
Courses available for students enrolled in the 1st and 3rd semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Modern British Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
English Baroque Poetry (
Brlek) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature (Polak) (B) (Early Modern) 6 ECTS

The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Šesnić) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Pre-Raphaelitism (Jukić) (B) (19th c.) 6 ECTS
Images of American Politics in Literary and Visual Media (Šesnić) (A) (20. st.) 6 ECTS



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2nd and 4th semester (summer)
Courses available for students enrolled in the 2nd and 4th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Ethics and Aesthetics of British Modernism (Domines Veliki) (B) (20th c.)
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Šesnić) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Cultural Aspects of American Neoliberalism (Cvek) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Literature and the Visual: American Film, Narrative Theory and Psychoanalysis (Jukić) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Narrative DissemiNation of the Land of Oz (Polak) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
London in Modern Anglophone Women’s Literature (Klepač) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

___________________________________________________________________________________

COURSES ARCHIVES

° Ac. year 2021/22

° Ac. year 2020/21

° Ac. year 2019/20

° Ac. year 2018/19

° Ac. year 2017/18

° Ac. year 2016/17

° Ac. year 2015/16
° Ac. year 2014/15
° Ac. year 2013/14

° Ac. year 2012/13
° Ac. year 2011/12

° Ac. year 2010/11

* before 2010:  http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/anglist-stari/w-syllabusi-eng/syllabus-svi%20eng.htm
* Please visit the page:
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
STUDIES AND COURSES: ECTS Information package


Note: In Courses archives: Year 1 and 2 are listed as 4 and 5; Semesters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are listed as 7, 8, 9 and 10.

 

 

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2020/21 (archive)

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2020/21
Year 1 and 2

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1st and 3rd semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 1st and 3rd semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Architext in postmodern British literature (Polić) (B) (20th c..) 6 ECTS
Modern British Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature (Polak) (B) (Early Modern) 6 ECTS

The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS



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2nd and 4th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 2nd and 4th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

The United States Now (Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Ethics and Aesthetics of British Modernism (Domines Veliki) (B) (20th c.)

The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Cvek) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Literature and the Visual: American Film, Narrative Theory and Psychoanalysis (Jukić) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Narrative DissemiNation of the Land of Oz (Polak) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
London in Modern Anglophone Women’s Literature (Klepač) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

___________________________________________________________________________________

COURSES ARCHIVES

° Ac. year 2019/20

° Ac. year 2018/19

° Ac. year 2017/18

° Ac. year 2016/17

° Ac. year 2015/16
° Ac. year 2014/15
° Ac. year 2013/14

° Ac. year 2012/13
° Ac. year 2011/12

° Ac. year 2010/11

* before 2010: http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/anglist-stari/w-syllabusi-eng/syllabus-svi%20eng.htm

Note: In Courses archives: Year 1 and 2 are listed as 4 and 5; Semesters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are listed as 7, 8, 9 and 10.

 

 

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2019/20 (archive)

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2019/20
Year 1 and 2

__________________________________________________________________________________

1st and 3rd semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 1st and 3rd semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Architext in postmodern British literature (Polić) (B) (20th c..) 6 ECTS
Modern British Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Images of American Politics in Literary and Visual Media
(Šesnić) (A) (20. st.) 6 ECTS
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Pre-Raphaelitism (Jukić) (B) (19th c.) 6 ECTS

__________________________________________________________________________________

2nd and 4th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 2nd and 4th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

The United States Now (Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Ethics and Aesthetics of British Modernism (Domines Veliki) (B) (20th c.)

The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Šesnić) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Cultural Aspects of American Neoliberalism (Cvek) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Anglophone Modernist Women’s Writing
(Klepač) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

___________________________________________________________________________________

COURSES ARCHIVES

° Ac. year 2018/19

° Ac. year 2017/18

° Ac. year 2016/17

° Ac. year 2015/16
° Ac. year 2014/15
° Ac. year 2013/14

° Ac. year 2012/13
° Ac. year 2011/12

° Ac. year 2010/11

Note: In Courses archives: Year 1 and 2 are listed as 4 and 5; Semesters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are listed as 7, 8, 9 and 10.

 

 

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2010/11 (archive)

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2010/11

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7th and 9th semester 2010/11
Courses available for students enrolled in the 7th and 9th semester
(A = American, B = British)

Britanski moderni roman i Britansko carstvo (Knežević) (B) (20. st.) 6 ECTS
Englesko barokno pjesništvo (Ciglar Žanić) (B) (starija) 6 ECTS
Etika i estetika britanskoga i irskoga modernizma (Gjurgjan) (B)(20. st.) 6 ECTS
Fantastika u britanskoj književnosti (Polak) (B)(starija/moderna) 6 ECTS
Milton (Brlek) (B)(starija) 6 ECTS
Povijest i pamćenje u suvremenom američkom romanu (Šesnić) (A)(20. st.) 6 ECTS
Povijest i paradigme američkih studija 1 (Grgas) (A)(20. st.) 6 ECTS
Predrafaelitizam (Jukić) (B)(19 st.) 6 ECTS
Re-presenting Los Angeles and the American City in Media, 7.sem. (dr. Leo Zonn, Fulbright gost profesor) (A) (20. st.) 6 ECTS
Shakespeare 1 (Ciglar Žanić) (A)(starija) 6 ECTS

8th and 10th semester 2010/11
Courses available for students enrolled in the 8th and 10th semester
(A = American, B = British)

Američko sada (Grgas) (A)(20. st.) (kolegij se neće održavati u ljetnom semestru 2010/2011.) 6 ECTS
Angloamerički modernizam: proza i poezija (Bašić) (A)(20. st.) 6 ECTS
Being Irish in English (O’Malley, gost profesor) (B)(20. st.) 6 ECTS
Englesko barokno pjesništvo (Ciglar Žanić) (B)(starija) 6 ECTS
Henry James i Edith Wharton: simptomatika američkog modernizma (Jukić) (A) (20. st.) 6 ECTS
Canadian Multicultural Literature (Warley, gost profesor) (B)(20. st.) 6 ECTS
Povijest i paradigme američkih studija 2 (ažuriran sil.) (Šesnić) (A)(19. st./20. st.) 6 ECTS
Povijest i teorija engleskog romana (Knežević) (B)(19/20. st.) 6 ECTS
Re-presenting Los Angeles and the American City in Media,  8.sem. (dr. Leo Zonn, Fulbright gost profesor) (A) (20. st.) 6 ECTS
Shakespeare (Ciglar Žanić) (B)(starija) 6 ECTS
Tematika rodnosti u modernoj anglofonoj književnosti (Gjurgjan) (B)(20. st.) 6 ECTS

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2018/19 (archive)

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2018/19
Year 1 and 2

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1st and 3rd semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 1st and 3rd semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Modern British Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Milton (Brlek) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature
(Polak) (B) (Early Modern) 6 ECTS
Images of American Politics in Literary and Visual Media
(Šesnić) (A) (20. st.) 6 ECTS
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Pre-Raphaelitism (Jukić) (B) (19th c.) 6 ECTS

__________________________________________________________________________________

2nd and 4th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 2nd and 4th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

The United States Now (Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Ethics and Aesthetics of British Modernism (Domines Veliki) (B) (20th c.)

The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Šesnić) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Literature and the Visual: American Film, Narrative Theory and Psychoanalysis (Jukić) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Cultural Aspects of American Neoliberalism (Cvek) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Narrative DissemiNation of Australia
(Polak) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Anglophone Modernist Women’s Writing
(Klepač) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

___________________________________________________________________________________

COURSES ARCHIVES
° Ac. year 2017/18

° Ac. year 2016/17

° Ac. year 2015/16
° Ac. year 2014/15
° Ac. year 2013/14

° Ac. year 2012/13
° Ac. year 2011/12

Note: In Courses archives: Year 1 and 2 are listed as 4 and 5; Semesters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are listed as 7, 8, 9 and 10.

 

 

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2017/18 (archive)

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2017/18
Year 1 and 2

__________________________________________________________________________________

1st and 3rd semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 1st and 3rd semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Architext in Postmodern British Literature (Polić) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Modern British Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Milton (Brlek) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature
(Polak) (B) (Early Modern) 6 ECTS
Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures
(Šesnić) (A) (20. st.) 6 ECTS
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Predrafaelitizam (Jukić) (B) (19th c.) 6 ECTS

__________________________________________________________________________________

2nd and 4th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 2nd and 4th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

The United States Now (Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Ethics and Aesthetics of British Modernism (Domines Veliki) (B) (20th c.)

The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Šesnić) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Literature and the Visual: American Film, Narrative Theory and Psychoanalysis (Jukić) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Cultural Aspects of American Neoliberalism (Cvek) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Narrative DissemiNation of Australia
(Polak) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Anglophone Modernist Women’s Writing
(Klepač) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

___________________________________________________________________________________

COURSES ARCHIVES

° Ac. year 2016/17

° Ac. year 2015/16
° Ac. year 2014/15
° Ac. year 2013/14

° Ac. year 2012/13
° Ac. year 2011/12

Note: In Courses archives: Year 1 and 2 are listed as 4 and 5; Semesters 1, 2, 3, and 4 are listed as 7, 8, 9 and 10.

 

 

Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures (2017/18)

Dr. Jelena Šesnić Literary seminar: Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures (1st/2nd Year) (A, 20th c.)
Winter 2017/2018
Semester: 1 or 3
Mon 11-12:30 (A-123)
Wed 13:15- 14 (A-105)
E-mail: jsesnic@ffzg.hr

Phone: 01-4092060
Office hours: Mon, 12:30-1:30 pm; Thu, 11-12 am

Course description: The course examines a very innovative and dynamic section of contemporary US literary/cultural production—literature produced by and about different established and newly arisen “ethnic communities” with special focus on the 1965 immigration reform, post-Cold War and post-9/11 developments, respectively. We shall address new modes of representing the ways of belonging, community and citizenship in relation to representative ethnic groups (African American, Native American), while in the second part of the course the attention will be given to the ways new cultural productions (both visual and textual) address concerns felt by more recent or recently more visible ethnic and racial formations (Asian American, Latino/ Chicano, Arab American, etc.). These textual and visual artefacts make evident some continuing concerns with nation- and community-building in the States, while they depict a new class of national subjects, a new generation of Americans.

Requirements: Regular attendance and class participation; in-class and home assignments; seminar paper (10-12 double-spaced pp.); continuous assessment (midterm and final test).

Reading / viewing list
Primary texts

Novels
Gish Jen: Mona in the Promised Land (1996)
Mohja Kahf: Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (2006)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Americanah (2013)
Memoirs
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me (2015)
Short stories
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (1999; selection)
Junot Díaz: This Is How You Lose Her (2012; selection)
Films
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989); Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, 1998); Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)

Readings by weeks and sections (alterations possible)
Part I: An overview
Introductory remarks: approaching ethnicity; interdisciplinarity in the study of ethnicity; race theory and ethnicity school; “racial formations” (Omi and Winant); consent and descent (Sollors); symbolic (voluntary) and ascribed (compulsory) ethnicity; American ethnic/racial pentagon; fantasmatic aspects of racial identifications; long-term ethnic groups/racial formations: African Americans, American Indians

*Entries from Keywords: “Citizenship”, “Ethnicity”, “Nation”, “Naturalization”, “Race”

October
Week 1: Introduction and key concepts
Week 2: African-American perspective: Do the Right Thing
Week 3: African-American perspective: Coates, Between the World and Me
Week 4: Amerindians and postmodernism: Smoke Signals

Part II: An overview
New racial formations; Chicanos and Latinos/Hispanics; Asian Americans; Arab Americans; post-1965 immigration and globalization; new paradigms of reading ethnic texts: diasporic and borderlands models

*The following entries from Keywords: “Border”, “Diaspora”, “Immigration”, “Mestizo”

Week 5: Chicanos as a sub-nation: Lone Star

November
Week 1 Latino diaspora: Junot Díaz: selection of short stories
Week 2: Midterm.
Week 3: Asian Americans as perpetual others: Lahiri: selection of short stories
Week 4: Asian Americans: Gish Jen: Mona in the Promised Land

December
Week 1: Gish Jen, cont.
Week 2: Post 9/11 and Arab Americans: Mohja Kahf: Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
Week 3: Kahf, cont.

January
Week 1: New African diaspora: Adichie: Americanah
Week 2: Adichie; cont.
Week 3: Evaluation. Final test.

Secondary readings
General introduction:
Appiah, Anthony. The Ethics of Identity. New Haven: Princeton UP, 2007. (selection)
– Burgett, Bruce, and Glenn Hendler, eds. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York and London: NYUP, 2007.
– (Entries: “Border”, “Citizenship”, “Diaspora”, “Ethnicity”, “Immigration”, “Mestizo”, “Nation”, “Naturalization”, “Race”)
– Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. Racial Formations in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s. 2nd ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. 53-76.
– Sollors, Werner. Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986. 20-39.

Additional material for each section will be provided in digital form on the Omega platform.

 

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2015/16 (archive)

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2015/16

__________________________________________________________________________________

7th and 9th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 7th and 9th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Architext in Postmodern British Literature (Polić) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
British Modern Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Croatian American Ethnic Literature (Šesnić) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
English Baroque Poetry (Ciglar Žanić) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
Milton
(Brlek) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature
(Polak) (B) (Early Modern) 6 ECTS
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Predrafaelitizam (Jukić) (B) (19th c.) 6 ECTS
__________________________________________________________________________________

8th and 10th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 8th and 10th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

The United States Now (Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
American Topics II (Fulbright guest professor) (A) 6 ECTS
Cultural Aspects of American Neoliberalism (Cvek) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

English Baroque Poetry (Ciglar Žanić) (B) (Early Modern) 6 ECTS
Henry James i Edith Wharton: simptomatika američkog modernizma (Jukić) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Šesnić) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS
Narrative DissemiNation of Australia
(Polak) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS

___________________________________________________________________________________

COURSES ARCHIVES

° Ac. year 2014/15
° Ac. year 2013/14

° Ac. year 2012/13
° Ac. year 2011/12

 

 

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2014/15

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2014/15

__________________________________________________________________________________

7th and 9th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 7th and 9th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Architext in Postmodern Biritish Literature (Polić) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
British Modern Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Croatian American Ethnic Literature (Šesnić) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
English Baroque Poetry (Ciglar Žanić) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
Milton
(Brlek) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Predrafaelitizam (Jukić) (B) (19th c.) 6 ECTS
__________________________________________________________________________________

8th and 10th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 8th and 10th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

The United States Now (Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture: Playing with the Past (O’Malley, visiting lecturer (B) (20th c.)
English Baroque Poetry (Ciglar Žanić) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
Henry James i Edith Wharton: simptomatika američkog modernizma (Jukić) (A) (20th c.)
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Šesnić) (A) (19th/20th c.) 6 ECTS
Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS

___________________________________________________________________________________

COURSES ARCHIVES

° Ac. year 2013/14
° Ac. year 2012/13
° Ac. year 2011/12

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2013/14

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2013/14

__________________________________________________________________________________

7th and 9th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 7th and 9th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Architext in Postmodern Biritish Literature (Polić) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
British Modern Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

English Baroque Poetry (Ciglar Žanić) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
Milton
(Brlek) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature (Polak) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

Predrafaelitizam (Jukić) (B) (19th c.) 6 ECTS
__________________________________________________________________________________

8th and 10th semester
Courses available for students enrolled in the 8th and 10th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

The United States Now (Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture (O’Malley, visiting lecturer (B) (20th c.)
English Baroque Poetry (Ciglar Žanić) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
Henry James i Edith Wharton: simptomatika američkog modernizma (Jukić) (A) (20th c.)
Cultural Aspects of American Neoliberalism (Cvek) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS

___________________________________________________________________________________

COURSES ARCHIVES
° Ac. year 2012/13
° Ac. year 2011/12

 

Literature and Culture: syllabi 2012/13

GRADUATE STUDY – LITERATURE AND CULTURE
COURSE DESCRIPTION 2012/13

__________________________________________________________________________________

7th and 9th semester 2012/13
Courses available for students enrolled in the 7th and 9th semester
(A = American, B = British)
_______________________________________________________________________________

Topics in American Studies 1 (Ambrose, Fulbright visiting scholar) (A) (19th c.) 6 ECTS
British Modern Novel and the British Empire (Knežević) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

English Baroque Poetry (Ciglar Žanić) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
Contemporary US Ethnic Literatures (Šesnić) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Milton
(Brlek) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
A Historical Survey of the Fantastic in British Literature (Polak) (B) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
The History and the Paradigms of American Studies 1
(Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS

__________________________________________________________________________________

8th and 10th semester 2012/13
Courses available for students enrolled in the 8th and 10th semester
(A = American, B = British)
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The United States Now (Grgas) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
Topics in American Studies 2 (Ambrose, Fulbright visiting scholar) (A) (19th c.) 6 ECTS
English Baroque Poetry (Ciglar Žanić) (B) (Early Modern Lit.) 6 ECTS
Henry James i Edith Wharton: simptomatika američkog modernizma (Jukić) (A) (20th c.)
Cultural Aspects of American Neoliberalism (Cvek) (A) (20th c.) 6 ECTS
The History and Paradigms of American Studies 2
(Šesnić) (A) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS

Theory and History of the Novel in English (Knežević) (B) (19th-20th c.) 6 ECTS

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Contemporary US Ethnic Literatures (2012/13)

Course title: Contemporary US Ethnic Literatures
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Jelena Šesnić
Semester: 7th or 9th
Course description: The course will look into a very innovative and dynamic section of contemporary US literary/cultural production—literature produced by and about different established and newly arisen “ethnic communities” with special focus on post-Vietnam War developments. We shall address new modes of representing the ways of belonging, community and citizenship in relation to representative ethnic groups (African American, Native American), while in the second part of the course the attention will be given to the ways new cultural productions (both visual and textual) address concerns felt by more recent or recently more visible ethnic and racial formations (Asian American, Latino, Arab American, etc.). These textual and visual artefacts make evident some continuing concerns with nation- and community-building in the States, while they depict a new class of national subjects, a new generation of Americans.

Reading / viewing list
Primary texts
Novels/ memoirs:
– Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995)

– Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker (1995)
– Dao Strom, Grass Roof, Tin Roof (2003)
Short stories:
– Bharati Muhkerjee, The Middleman and Other Stories (1988; selection)

– Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (1999; selection)
– Sandra Cisneros, “Woman Hollering Creek” (1991; from: The Latino Reader)
– Tahira Naqvi, “Thank God for the Jews” (from: W. Brown and A. Ling, eds. Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land (2002)
Poetry:
– Mohja Kahf, E-mails from Scheherazad (2003; selection); D.H. Melhem; Pauline Kaldas

Films
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956); Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre, 1998); Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)

Secondary readings
General introduction:
– Burgett, Bruce, and Glenn Hendler, eds. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York and London: NYUP, 2007. (Entries: “Border”, “Citizenship”, “Diaspora”, “Ethnicity”, “Immigration”, “Mestizo”, “Nation”, “Naturalization”, “Race”)

– Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. Racial Formations in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s. 2nd ed. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. 53-76.
– Sollors, Werner. Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986. 20-39.
Supplementary reading:
– Gilroy, Paul. “The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity.” The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. 1-19.
– Bronfen, Elisabeth. Home in Hollywood: The Imaginary Geography of Cinema. New York: Columbia UP, 2004. 95-125.
– Fraser, Joelle, Sherman Alexie. “An Interview with Sherman Alexie.” The Iowa Review 30.3 (Winter 2000/2001): 59-70.
– An Interview with B. Mukherjee, available at Jouvert. A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
– Behdad, Ali. “Critical Historicism.” American Literary History 20.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008): 286-99.
– Koshy, Susan. “Postcolonial Studies after 9/11: A Response to Ali Behdad.” American Literary History 20.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008): 300-303.
– Anon., ”El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán.” 1969, available at Aztlan Historical Documents
– Anzaldúa, Gloria. “The New Mestiza. Towards a New Consciousness.” Borderlands/La Frontera. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987. 99-113.
– Grewal, Inderpal. “Introduction: Neoliberal Citizenship: The Governmentality of Rights and Consumer Culture.” Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2005. 1-34.
– Jun, Helen Heran. Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America, New York: NYU P, 2011. 123-48.
– Bhabha, Homi. “DissemiNation. Time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation.” The Location of Culture. 1994. New York and London: Routledge Classics, 2004. 199-226.

Course requirements: Continuous assessment (attendance, participation: 10% of the final grade; oral presentation: 10%; assignments: 10%; seminar paper: 30%; mid-term and final tests: 40%). Students need to get a pass for all of the above elements.