Naziv kolegija: Američki Bildungsroman 19. i 20. stoljeća (A, 19. i 20. st.) 
Ljetni semestar 2012/13., 2018/19.
Nastavnica: Dr. sc. Jelena Šesnić, izv. prof.
ECTS-bodovi: 6
Jezik: Engleski
Trajanje: 4. ili 6. semestar; ljetni
Status: Izborni
Oblik nastave: 1 sat predavanja + 2 sata seminara
Uvjeti za upis kolegija: Upisan 4. ili 6. semestar studija.
Cilj i sadržaj kolegija: Bildungsroman kao žanr problematizira proces stjecanja društvenog i kulturnog identiteta te dramatizira nastanak tipičnog građanskog subjekta. U smislu konstituiranja rodnih identiteta, kolegij će nastojati ponuditi nacrt modela razvoja za ženske i muške protagoniste (s karakterističnim razlikama), zastupljene u izabranim tekstovima, dok će u kontinuitetu pratiti razvoj žanra unutar nacionalne književne tradicije. U kontekstu «iznalaženja djetinjstva» (Philippe Ariès) i psihoanalitičkog modela nastanka subjekta, čitanja će se usredotočiti na žanrovske, psihološke i kulturne modele koji u ovim romanima podupiru trajno fascinantne priče o odrastanju.

Primarni tekstovi:

1. Horatio Alger: Ragged Dick (1868)
2. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women (1868, 1869)
3. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
4. Paule Marshall: Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959)
5. Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country (1985)
6. Colson Whithead: Sag Harbour (2009)

Literatura (u pripremi):
A Obvezatna
– Ariès, Philippe. Centuries of Childhood. New York: Vintage, 1962. (izbor)
– Bakhtin, Mikhail. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Austin: U of Texas P, 1986. (izbor)
– Moretti, Franco. The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture. 1987. New ed. London: Verso, 2000. (izbor)

– Čitanka s dodatnom sekundarnom literaturom.

Način polaganja ispita: Kontinuirana evaluacija (kolokviji: mid-term + final; 40% ocjene); seminarski rad (6-7 kartica teksta; 30 % ocjene); pohađanje i sudjelovanje (10%); dodatne aktivnosti (20%).

Naziv kolegija: Američka književnost i kultura 2: American Non-Fiction Writing, 1580-1880
Nastavnik: dr. sc. Douglas Ambrose, red. prof.
ECTS-bodovi: 6
Jezik: engleski
Trajanje: 4. ili 6. semestar
Status: izborni kolegij
Uvjeti za upis kolegija: položen Uvod u studij engleske književnosti; upisan 4. ili 6. semestar

COURSE PURPOSE: This course provides an introduction to American history through various forms of non-fiction writing. Beginning with sixteenth-century English accounts of the New World, we will explore the development of certain themes and genres that came to characterize American non-fiction, including the jeremiad, the captivity narrative, social and physical mobility, “manifest destiny” and providentialism, the slave narrative, nature writing, and the promise of “the west.”  We will follow a chronological narrative through American history, recognizing throughout the political and social contexts of the texts while paying close attention to the internal development of the genres to which they belong. 

COURSE STRUCTURE:  Students must complete the readings for the week prior to our Monday meetings.  Each Monday meeting will begin with a brief quiz on that week’s materials.  Each student must bring the week’s readings to class each week.  Although I will occasionally lecture in order to situate the texts, class discussion of the readings will constitute the bulk of our meetings.  A successful class requires the participation of all students.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS: In addition to regular attendance, preparation, and participation, students will write three short papers (500-750 words each) and take a midterm and final exam.  Beginning with Week 2 and continuing for every subsequent week through week 15, I will provide a question at the conclusion of Tuesday’s meeting.  Students will pick three of these questions to write on.  Papers are always due the following Monday.  I will not accept any late papers, so choose wisely.  The midterm exam will take place on either 15 or 16 April.  The final exam will take place on either 10 or 11 June.

COURSE SCHEDULE
Week 1: Envisioning America. Read Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588/1590).
Week 2: Planting a “New England.” Read John Cotton, “God’s Promise to His Plantation” (1630); John Winthrop, “Model of Christian Charity” (1630).
Week 3: Exhorting America: The Jeremiad and its Meanings. Read Samuel Danforth, New England’s Errand into the Wilderness (1670); Increase Mather, An Exhortation To the Inhabitants of New England (1676).
Week 4: Captivity, Identity, and Redemption. Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1682).
Week 5: Becoming American.  Read Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (1791).
Week 6: The Transformation of Political Discourse. Read Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776); Samuel Sherwood, “The Church’s Flight into the Wilderness” (1776).
Week 7: Midterm exam.
Week 8: Explaining America. Read Hector St. John de Crevecour, Letters From an American Farmer (1782) Read “Advertisement and Dedication,” Letter I, Letter III, and Letter IX; Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787). Read “Front Matter,” Query 8, Query 11, Query 14, and Query 17.
Week 9: Exploring America. William Bartram, Travels (1791). Read Part IV, Chapters  I-VI; Lewis and Clark, Journals (1814). Read July 30, 1804; August 25, 1804; September 24 & 25, 1804; October 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12, 1804; October 27, 1804; October 29, 1804; October 31, 1804; November 4, 1804.
Week 10: American Destiny. Read Lyman Beecher, A Plea for the West (1832); and John L. O’Sullivan, “The Great Nation of Futurity” (1839).
Week 11: The Beginnings of African American Political Writing.  Read David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829).
Week 12: Narrating American Slavery and American Freedom. Read William Wells Brown, Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave (1847); Josiah Henson, The Life of Josiah Henson . . . (1849).
Week 13: The “Other America”: The South.  Read James Henley Thornwell, “The Christian Doctrine of Slavery” (1850); Louisa McCord, “Woman and Her Needs” (1852); George Fitzhugh, “Southern Thought” (1857), on Omega.
Week 14: A New Birth: Postbellum America.  Read Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address” (1865); Horace Bushnell, “Our Obligations to the Dead” (1865) on Omega; Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants” (1865); and “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln” (1876).
Week 15: Final Exam.

Naziv kolegija: Američka književnost i kultura 1: Američki Jug
Nastavnik: dr. sc. Douglas Ambrose, red. prof. (Fulbright gostujući profesor)
ECTS-bodovi: 6
Jezik: engleski
Status: izborni kolegij
Trajanje: 3. ili 5. semestar
Uvjet za upis kolegija: položen Uvod u studij engleske književnosti
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COURSE GOALS:
Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
                                                                                        William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

COURSE DISCRIPTION:
In this course we will “tell about the South.”  We will focus on the development and consolidation of the slave society and culture of the Old South and its relation to northern society and culture.  Through selected readings, lectures, and discussions, we will explore how the South developed a distinctive social order that found itself by the 1850s locked in a life and death struggle with the North.  What were the historical origins of this powerful, complex, and changing regional society?  What role did slavery play in southern social, cultural, economic, and political life?  How did a society of different and often antagonistic races and classes maintain stability and order down to the War for Southern Independence?  How did Africans and African Americans accommodate to and resist their enslavement?  How did white and black southerners perceive and relate to each other?  What characterized elite and non-elite white culture?  How did southern literary expression—novels, poetry, scholarship, religious literature—both participate in a broad “American” culture and reflect a distinct “Southern” cultural movement?  By addressing these questions, and others, we will gain a better understanding of how this region and its people affected the course of American history and culture.
FORMAT:
Although primarily a lecture course, I encourage questions and comments at all times.  On certain occasions, we will conduct class entirely as a discussion-based seminar.  Students should always complete all readings for the week before the Wednesday meeting so that they can offer informed and thoughtful contributions to class discussions.
ASSIGNMENTS:
You will have two written assignments, each of approximately 1000-1250 words. There will also be a final examination.
EVALUATION:
I will evaluate your performance based on your attendance, participation, and performance on the papers and the exam.
REQUIRED READINGS:
Nearly all of the materials for the course will be either on the class’s Omega site or available online.  Students should obtain a hard copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.