{"id":19698,"date":"2013-08-31T18:19:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19698"},"modified":"2015-02-24T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T18:13:09","slug":"the-history-and-paradigms-of-american-studies-2-sesnic-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19698&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The History and Paradigms of American Studies 2 (\u0160esni\u0107, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Jelena \u0160esni\u0107<\/span><\/p>\n

Literary Seminar (MA Level): The History and Paradigms of American Studies 2 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Spring 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

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Syllabus
Course description: <\/b> This is a companion course to the History and Paradigms of American Studies 1 which thus continues to examine the changes in the methodology of American Studies since the 1970s. Major developments in this respect are poststructuralist theory, new historicism, feminist and gender studies (from Marxism to psychoanalysis), ethnic, postcolonial and border studies, transnational turn and cultural studies. These approaches will be exemplified by representative scholarly essays and tested in turn on the appropriate primary texts. The course is obligatory for American studies majors (8th<\/sup> semester); elective for all other MA students.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Course requirements:<\/b> regular attendance; participation in class discussion; in-class and home assignments; oral presentation (10 min); <\/b>2 seminar papers (6-7 pp.\/ ca 2000-2500 words each + bibliography); final test (mandatory, non-negotiable, continuous assessment). Grade break-down: Seminar papers 50 %; final test 30 %; the rest 20 %.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Readings (alterations possible):<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Primary texts <\/span><\/p>\n

1. Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia<\/i> (1781-2; selected chapters)<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/etext.lib.virginia.edu\/toc\/modeng\/public\/JefVirg.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(E-text centre, U of Virginia Library)<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Lenora Sansay: Secret History, or The Horrors of St. Domingo<\/i> (1808)<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Edgar Allan Poe: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket<\/i> (1838)<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~MA98\/silverman\/poe\/frame.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(American Studies at the UVa)<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Henry David Thoreau: Walden <\/i>(1845; selected chapters)<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.vcu.edu\/engweb\/transcendentalism\/authors\/thoreau\/walden\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(American Transcendentalism on the Web)<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Herman Melville: \u201eBenito Cereno\u201c (from The Piazza Tales<\/i>, 1856)<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.esp.org\/books\/melville\/piazza\/contents\/cereno.html<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Harriet Prescott Spofford: \u201eAmber Gods\u201c (1863)<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/faculty.pittstate.edu\/~knichols\/beads.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

7. Sandra Cisneros: \u201eWoman Hollering Creek\u201c (1991)<\/span><\/p>\n


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Syllabus (alterations possible)<\/span><\/p>\n

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March <\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Introduction: European vs US Americanists; perspectives, focus and methods:<\/span><\/p>\n

Chenetier, Fluck, Pease<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: from national to imperial American studies (Aravamudan)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Poststructuralism: Thoreau, Walden<\/i> (Benn Michaels)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: Thoreau, Walden<\/i>; towards New Historicism (Michael Gilmore)<\/span><\/p>\n

April<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: New Historicism: text and contexts; Bercovitch and the American Renaissance<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: New Historicism and the \u201cNew Americanists\u201d: EA Poe: Pym<\/i> (D. Pease)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: New Historicism: EA Poe, cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: New Historicism into transnational American studies: Herman Melville: \u201cBenito Cereno\u201d (Sundquist, Warren) <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5: De-centring American studies: ethnic studies; Jefferson, Notes<\/i> (Erkkila)<\/span><\/p>\n

May<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Jefferson, Notes<\/i> (cont.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Feminist criticism and the canon: Baym; Harriet Prescott Spofford: \u201cAmber Gods\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Feminist into gender studies; border studies: Anzald\u00faa; Cisneros<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: Is there a transnational American studies? Leonora Sansay: Secret History, or The Horrors of St. Domingo<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

June<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Transnational American studies: Sansay, cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: American Studies and cultural studies: is there a method? Guest lecturer: Dr. Sven Cvek (American Studies Program, Zagreb)<\/span><\/p>\n

Final test. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Relevant Internet sources:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

EAAS web-site (European Association for American Studies): see links<\/span><\/p>\n

ASA web-site (American Studies Association): see links<\/span><\/p>\n

ALA (American Literature Association): see links<\/span><\/p>\n

MLA (Modern Languages Association): see links<\/span><\/p>\n

MELUS (US-based) and MESEA (European-based): see links<\/span><\/p>\n

American Studies Journals on the Web<\/span><\/p>\n

Full-text journal databases: J-stor, Project Muse, EBSCO, Oxford Journals, Blackwell, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

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List of journals: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

American Literary History; American Quarterly<\/i> (ASA); American Literature<\/i> (ALA)<\/span><\/p>\n

PMLA<\/i> (MLA)<\/span><\/p>\n

European Journal of American Studies<\/i> (e-journal, EAAS; see other national AS associations)<\/span><\/p>\n

New Literary History; Boundary 2; Representations<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

MELUS <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The Transnational Journal of American Studies<\/i> (e-journal)<\/span><\/p>\n

The 49th Parallel<\/i> (e-journal)<\/span><\/p>\n

Neo-Americanist<\/i> (e-journal)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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