Instructor: Hrvoje Tutek
Subject: American Literature
Course title: American Modernism
ECTS credits: 6
Language: English
Duration: 1 semester, 4th or 6th
Status: elective in undergraduate programme
Form of Instruction:
Prerequisites: enrolled in fourth or sixth semester
Examination: Regular attendance, active participation , one written paper (5-6) pages and written final exam.
READINGS:
F.S. Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, “The Crack-Up”
Sherwood Anderson: 3 short stories from Winesburg, Ohio
Ernest Hemingway: 5 short stories from In Our Time , The Sun Also Rises
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury (selections)
Richard Wright: Native Son, “The Blueprint for Negro Writing”
John Dos Passos: selections from USA Trilogy
John Steinbeck: In Dubious Battle (selection)
SECONDARY READINGS:
Baym, Nina et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 4th ed. New York, London: WW Norton, 1994. (selection)
Bradbury, Malcolm and James McFarlane, eds. Modernism. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976.
Elliott, Emory, gen. ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia UP, 1988. (selection)
McQuade, Donald et al., eds. The Harper American Literature. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers, 1994. (selection)