{"id":38648,"date":"2021-02-18T15:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=38648"},"modified":"2021-02-18T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:27:43","slug":"the-history-and-paradigms-of-american-studies-2-cvek-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=38648&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The History and Paradigms of American Studies 2 (Cvek, 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: normal; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> <strong>Course title<\/strong>: <br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Literary Seminar (MA Level): The History and Paradigms of American Studies 2 <\/strong>(A, 19\/20)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Instructor:<\/strong> Dr. Jelena \u0160esni\u0107, Dr. Sven Cvek<br \/>\n<strong>ECTS credits<\/strong>: 6<br \/>\n<strong>Status<\/strong>: elective (obligatory for American Studies majors in the 2nd semester)<br \/>\n<strong>Enrollment requirements<\/strong>: enrollment in the 2nd and\/or 4th semester<br \/>\nSpring 2021<br \/>\nOffice: B-018<br \/>\nPhone: 01- 4092060<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Syllabus<br \/>\nCourse description:<\/strong> This course is a companion course to the <em>History and Paradigms of American Studies1<\/em> which investigates the origins of the discipline of American Studies. Since the 1970s, however, the discipline has undertaken to interrogate some of its main premises based on the changing conceptions of U.S. society and the nation-state. Even though the revisionist interventions began to be felt already in the 1970s, we will posit as a starting point of our inquiry a methodological break observable in the 1980s as \u201cideology\u201d becomes a necessary accompaniment of any AS inquiry. The next historical break\u2014the end of the Cold War in 1989\u2014indicates another momentous shift as we follow the developments thereafter. These will demonstrate the efforts by so-called New Americanists to devise contesting models of American culture, while the emphases in their agendas may differ, as our readings will show. In the process of revising American Studies various theories have been made use of ranging from New Historicism to poststructuralism, to ethnic\/ race, feminist and gender studies to Marxism and cultural studies to transnational perspectives. In the last part of the course the foregoing theories will be tested on an array of texts. The course is obligatory for AS majors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Course requirements<\/strong>: Regular attendance, participation in class discussions, mid-term and final test (continuous assessment, mandatory), presentation in class, written assignments and a final seminar paper. Grade break-down: tests\u201440 %, seminar paper\u201440 %; the rest\u201420 %.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Syllabus <\/strong><strong>(alterations possible)<\/strong><strong>:<br \/>\nIn the summer semester 2020\/21 the instructor will be Sven Cvek. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course title: Literary Seminar (MA Level): The History and Paradigms of American Studies 2 (A, 19\/20) Instructor: Dr. Jelena \u0160esni\u0107, Dr. Sven Cvek ECTS credits: 6 Status: elective (obligatory for American Studies majors in the 2nd semester) Enrollment requirements: enrollment in the 2nd and\/or 4th semester Spring 2021 Office: B-018 Phone: 01- 4092060 Syllabus Course [&hellip;]<\/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":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-i-10-semestar-knjizevni-kolegiji-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648","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=38648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38649,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38648\/revisions\/38649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}