{"id":49717,"date":"2026-09-24T11:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=49717"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:49:10","slug":"povijest-i-paradigme-americkih-studija-1-26-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=49717","title":{"rendered":"Povijest i paradigme ameri\u010dkih studija 1 (26.\/27.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naziv kolegija:<\/strong> Povijest i paradigme ameri\u010dkih studija 1 (A) (19\/20. st.)  (6 ECTS)
\nNastavnica:<\/strong> dr. sc. Jelena \u0160esni\u0107
\nECTS-bodovi:<\/strong> 6
\nRaspored:<\/strong> pon, 11-12:30, A-123; sri, 1:15-2, A-105
\nUred:<\/strong> B-018
\nTel:<\/strong> 01-4092060
\nE-mail:<\/strong> jsesnic@ffzg.unizg.hr
\nKonzultacije:<\/strong> pon, 12:30 – 13:30; \u010det, 10:00 -11:00<\/p>\n

Course description:
\n<\/strong>In the seminar we shall be discussing the emergence and various methodologies of American Studies from their beginnings in the 1930s and 1940s until the revisionist interventions in the 1960s and 1970s. In the introductory sessions the following questions shall be considered: why and in which contexts American Studies have appeared; in what way their approaches differ from the other disciplines concerned with U.S. American culture and society. The next sessions will be dedicated to the scholars who have founded American Studies. In the concluding part, a synthesis of readings of selected critical texts \u2013 accompanied by the relevant and illustrative primary (literary) texts \u2013 will be offered so as to point to their similarities and highlight the differences among the paradigms. Conclusively, it will be considered how these paradigms might be relevant for the understanding of the United States in the past and at present, and to what extent they might be applicable in other temporal and spatial contexts.<\/p>\n

Course requirements:
\n<\/strong>regular attendance; in-class and home assignments 20%; seminar paper, 30%; midterm and final test (continuous assessment), 50%.<\/p>\n

Syllabus (subject to change): <\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. historical emergence of American Studies as a discipline<\/li>\n
  2. methodologies of American Studies, an overview<\/li>\n
  3. Main practitioners: F.O. Matthiessen<\/li>\n
  4. Perry Miller<\/li>\n
  5. Henry Nash Smith<\/li>\n
  6. R.W.E. B. Lewis<\/li>\n
  7. Midterm<\/li>\n
  8. Leo Marx<\/li>\n
  9. Alan Trachtenberg<\/li>\n
  10. Sacvan Bercovitch<\/li>\n
  11. Richard Slotkin<\/li>\n
  12. Final test; course evaluation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Selected bibliography of texts will be provided in digital form on Omega. <\/strong><\/p>\n

    Additional readings:<\/strong>
    \nCastiglia, Christopher. Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times, NYU P, 2017.
    \nFuller, Randal. Emerson\u2019s Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists. Oxford UP, 2007.
    \nPfister, Joel. Critique for What? Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies. Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
    \n—. Surveyors of Customs: American Literature as Cultural Analysis. Oxford UP, 2016.
    \nVan Engen, Abram C. City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism. Yale UP, 2020.
    \nVoelz, Johannes. Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists and Emerson\u2019s Challenge. Dartmouth, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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