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Course Title: Aspects of American Romanticism <\/strong><\/em>(A, 19. st.)<\/strong>
<\/span>Instructor: Dr\u00a0 Jelena \u0160esni\u0107
ECTS credits: 6
Language: English
Status: elective
Duration:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>3rd<\/sup> or 5th<\/sup> semester
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Fall 2015\/2016
Mon, 8:45-9:30 (A-105)
Wed, 9:30-11 (A-105)
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Course description:<\/strong> 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 alternative (women, African Americans, commoners) 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Requirements:<\/strong> regular attendance; participation in class discussions; in-class and home assignments; seminar paper 6-7 pp. (ca 2000 words); mid-term + final test (continuous assessment, mandatory, non-negotiable)<\/span><\/p>\n

Selected works:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

R.W. Emerson: selection of essays<\/span><\/p>\n

Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass<\/em> (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry David Thoreau: Walden<\/em> (selection); selection of essays<\/span><\/p>\n

Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century<\/em>; selection of essays<\/span><\/p>\n

Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Hope Leslie<\/em> (novel)<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Herman Melville: Typee<\/em> (novel)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Weekly Readings<\/strong> (alterations possible)<\/span><\/p>\n

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October 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Introduction: key concepts; lit-historical context<\/span><\/p>\n

Emerson: selected essays (\u201eThe American Scholar\u201c, \u201eSelf-Reliance\u201c)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Emerson: \u201eThe Poet\u201c; Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass<\/em> (selection)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Thoreau: Walden<\/em> (selected chapters)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: Thoreau: Walden<\/em>, cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

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November 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Thoreau: \u201eCivil Disobedience\u201c, \u201eA Plea for Captain John Brown\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Fuller: \u201eAutobiographical romance\u201c, \u201eSelf-definitions\u201c (excerpts)<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth-Century<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Fuller: Woman<\/em> (cont.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: Sedgwick: Hope Leslie<\/em> (intro) *Mid-term.<\/span><\/p>\n

December 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Sedgwick: cont<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Sedwwick: cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Douglass: The Narrative<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: Douglass: cont.<\/span><\/p>\n

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January 2016<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1: Melville: Typee<\/em> (intro)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: Melville, cont. *Seminar paper submission.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: Melville, cont. Evaluation. *Final test. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Secondary readings:<\/span><\/p>\n