- Code
- ELL 313
- Name
- American Literature I
- Semester
- 5
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
This course introduces the movements, periods and principal authors of American literature from its beginnings to naturalism. It covers the major genres of prose, poetry and drama. Literary texts are analyzed in their historical social, contexts and their unique cultural value is elucidated.
- Objectives
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At the end of this course, the student will be able to: 1.Understand and appreciate American literature as historical documents, philosophical reflections on American values and lifestyles and as works of art. 2. Be able to read, analyze and interpret literature and relate it to their own values and experience.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- American literature as a conversation about what it means to be an American.
- 2
- Puritanism .William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation and John Winthrop A model of Christian Charity.
- 3
- Puritan Poetry.Religion and literature. Anne Bradstreet The Author to Her Book, Edward Taylor Meditation.
- 4
- Rationality and Nationalism.Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography Part II, and Part III, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, “Letters from an American Farmer”.
- 5
- Rationality and Nationalism. Philis Wheatley On being brought from Africa to America, Washington Irvin Rip Van Winkle
- 6
- Transcendentalism. Emerson “The American Scholar,” “Nature”.
- 7
- Transcendentalism. Thoreau “Resistance to Civil Government,” selections from Walden.
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- The American Bard.Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass,Song of Myself.
- 10
- The American Bard. Emily Dickinson Letters,
- 11
- Slave narratives and the Cult of True Womanhood. Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter.
- 12
- Wealth and Morality.Herman Melville Bartleby the Scrivener,Moby Dick.
- 13
- Gothic Features in American Romanticism. Edgar Allan Poe
- 14
- Romantic Poets and Dramatists.
- 15
- Review
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Be able to understand and appreciate American literature as historical documents, philosophical reflections on American values and lifestyles and as works of art.
- 2
- Be able to read, analyze amd interpret literature and relate it to their own values and experience
- 3
- Be able to discuss the importance of research ethics and to explain the concept of ethics.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 15% 15%
- Quizzes
- 2 5% 10%
- Projects
- 1 15% 15%
- Term projects
- 1 20% 20%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 5% 5%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 65%
- Final exam percent
- 35%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 2 6 12
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 14 14
- Other
- 1 5 5
- Total workLoad
- 131
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.24
- ECTS
- 5.00