Aspects of American Romanticism (archive)

Aspects of American Romanticism
Književni seminar akademska godina 2011/12.
Zimski semestar
Dodiplomski studij (2-3. godina)
Naziv kolegija: Aspekti američkoga romantizma (A, 19. st.)
Nastavnica: Dr. sc. Jelena Šesnić
ECTS-bodovi: 6
Jezik: Engleski
Trajanje: 3. ili 5. semestar; zimski
Status: Izborni
Oblik nastave: 1 sat predavanja + 2 sata seminara
Uvjeti za upis kolegija: Upisan 3. ili 5. semestar studija
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Cilj kolegija:
The period spans the decades from the 1820s to approximately the 1860s marked by the flowering of national literature in post-revolutionary times; the adoption and americanization of European ideas in so-called New England Transcendentalism, and the emergence of African American voices. Alternatively called the American Renaissance, the period testifies to the coming-of-age of American literature. The texts are a representative selection of the unprecedented surge of creative energy that left no aspect of social and personal life untouched (from religion, education, women’s rights to politics and abolition), and will thus guide is in our examination of the past to which the American present owes so much.

Sadržaj kolegija:

1. R W Emerson: essays (selection); Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (selection)
2. H D Thoreau: Walden (selection); essays („Civil Disobedience“, selection)
3. Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
4. Catherine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
5. Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
6. Herman Melville: Typee

Literatura:
A. Obvezatna
– Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad, Madison: The U of Wisconsin P, 1978.
(izbor)
– Pease, Donald. Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural
Context, Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987. (izbor)
– Pease, Donald, ed. National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives, Durham: Duke
UP, 1994. (izbor)
– Rowe, John Carlos. At Emerson’s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. (izbor)
– Warren, Joyce, ed. The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women
– Writers. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1993. (izbor)

Način polaganja ispita: Kontinuirana evaluacija (kolokviji: mid-term + final; 40% ocjene); seminarski rad (6-7 kartica teksta; 30 % ocjene); pohađanje, vježbe, prezentacija, aktivnost na satu (30 % ocjene).

 

 

 

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SYLLABUS

Naziv
kolegija:

Aspekti američkog romantizma

Književni seminar akademska
godina 2011/12.

 

Zimski semestar

Dodiplomski studij (2-3.
godina) 

Naziv kolegija:
Aspekti američkoga romantizma  (A, 19. st.)

Nastavnica:
Dr. sc. Jelena Šesnić

ECTS-bodovi:

6

Jezik:

Engleski

Trajanje:
3. ili 5. semestar; zimski
 

Status:
Izborni

Oblik nastave:
1 sat predavanja + 2 sata
seminara

Uvjeti za upis kolegija:
Upisan 3. ili 5.
semestar studija

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Cilj
kolegija:

The period
spans the decades from the 1820s to approximately the 1860s marked by the
flowering of national literature in post-revolutionary times; the adoption and
americanization of European ideas in so-called New England Transcendentalism,
and the emergence of African American voices. Alternatively called the American
Renaissance, the period testifies to the coming-of-age of American literature.
The texts are a representative selection of the unprecedented surge of creative
energy that left no aspect of social and personal life untouched (from religion,
education, women’s rights to politics and abolition), and will thus guide is in
our examination of the past to which the American present owes so much.

 

Sadržaj
kolegija:

 

1. R W
   Emerson: essays (selection); Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (selection)
2. H D
   Thoreau: Walden (selection); essays („Civil Disobedience“, selection)
3. 
   Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
4. 
   Catherine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie
5. 
   Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of
   Frederick Douglass
6. 
   Herman Melville: Typee

 

Literatura:

 

A Obvezatna

Bercovitch,
Sacvan. The American Jeremiad, Madison: The U of Wisconsin P, 1978.

(izbor)

Pease,
Donald. Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance
Writings in Cultural

Context,
Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987. (izbor)

Pease, Donald, ed. National Identities and Post-Americanist
Narratives, Durham: Duke

UP, 1994. (izbor)

Rowe, John
Carlos. At Emerson’s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature.

New York: Columbia UP, 1997.
(izbor)

Warren,
Joyce, ed. The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century
Women

Writers.
New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1993. (izbor)

 

Način
polaganja ispita:
Kontinuirana evaluacija (kolokviji: mid-term + final; 40%
ocjene); seminarski rad (6-7 kartica teksta; 30 % ocjene); pohađanje, vježbe,
prezentacija, aktivnost na satu (30 % ocjene).