{"id":19178,"date":"2012-09-05T17:13:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19178"},"modified":"2012-09-05T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T16:13:22","slug":"american-literature-and-culture-1-the-old-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19178&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"American literature and culture 1: The Old South"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title: American literature and culture 1: The Old South
Instructor: <\/strong>Prof. Douglas Ambrose (Fulbright Scholar)<\/span>
ECTS credits: <\/strong> 6<\/span>
Language: <\/strong>English
Status<\/strong>: Elective
Semester<\/strong>: 3th<\/sup> or 5th<\/sup>
Enrolment requirements:<\/strong> completed Introduction to English Literature
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COURSE GOALS:<\/strong><\/span>
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.<\/em> <\/span>
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COURSE DISCRIPTION:<\/strong><\/span>
In this course we will “tell about the South.”\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 What were the historical origins of this powerful, complex, and changing regional society?\u00a0 What role did slavery play in southern social, cultural, economic, and political life?\u00a0 How did a society of different and often antagonistic races and classes maintain stability and order down to the War for Southern Independence?\u00a0 How did Africans and African Americans accommodate to and resist their enslavement?\u00a0 How did white and black southerners perceive and relate to each other?\u00a0 What characterized elite and non-elite white culture?\u00a0 How did southern literary expression\u2014novels, poetry, scholarship, religious literature\u2014both participate in a broad \u201cAmerican\u201d culture and reflect a distinct \u201cSouthern\u201d cultural movement?\u00a0 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.<\/span>
FORMAT<\/strong>:<\/span>
Although primarily a lecture course, I encourage questions and comments at all times.\u00a0 On certain occasions, we will conduct class entirely as a discussion-based seminar.\u00a0 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.<\/span>
ASSIGNMENTS<\/strong>:<\/span>
You will have two written assignments, each of approximately 1000-1250 words. There will also be a final examination.<\/span>
EVALUATION<\/strong>:<\/span>
I will evaluate your performance based on your attendance, participation, and performance on the papers and the exam.<\/span>
REQUIRED READINGS:<\/strong><\/span>
Nearly all of the materials for the course will be either on the class\u2019s Omega site or available online.\u00a0 Students should obtain a hard copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe\u2019s Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n


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Course title: American literature and culture 1: The Old SouthInstructor: Prof. Douglas Ambrose (Fulbright Scholar)ECTS credits: 6Language: EnglishStatus: ElectiveSemester: 3th or 5thEnrolment requirements: completed Introduction to English Literature_________________________________________________________________________________________ \u00a0 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. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knjizevni-seminari-3-ili-5-semestar-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}