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Code: ELL 314
Name: American Literature II
Semester: 6
Lecture hours: 3.00
Seminar hours: 0.00
Laborator hours: 0.00
Credits: 3.00
ECTS: 5.00
Description: The course aims to introduce students to the movements, periods and principal authors of American literature from naturalism to contemporary American Literature. It covers the three genres: prose, poetry and drama where literary texts are placed in the context of broader social and historical of their time and perceived as important cultural performances
Objectives: At the end of this course, the student will be able to: 1.Understand and appreciate American literature as historical documents, philosophical reflections on American values and lifestyles and as works of art. 2.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: Realism,regionalism and naturalism. Henry James, William Dean Howells and Stephen Crane.
2: Fiction and Social Criticism. Autobiography and the American Experience
3: American fiction between the wars
4: Twentieth Century American Drama
5: American poetry until 1945
6: American fiction until the end of World War II
7: Analysis of authors until 1945
8: Midterm Exam
9: American poetry today
10: American poetry today
11: American poetry today
12: American poetry today
13: Selected works
14: Selected works
15: Review
16: Final Exam

1: Students are able to understand and appreciate the documents on American literature as historical documents, philosophical reflections on American values and lifestyles and as works of art.
2: Students are able to read, analyze amd interpret literature and relate it to their own values and experience
3: Students are able to make brainstorming analysis of the works of this period

Letërsi Amerikane II