- Code
- ELL 413
- Name
- American Culture and Literature
- Semester
- 1
- Lecture hours
- 4.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 4.00
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Description
-
Lënda synon të thellojë dijet e studentëve dhe të diskutojë rreth lëvizjeve, periudhave dhe autorëve kryesorë të Letërsisë amerikane nga fillimet e saj deri në ditët e sotme. Ajo i mbulon të tria gjinitë, prozën, poezinë dhe dramën ku tekstet letrare vendosen në kontekstin e gjerë shoqëror dhe historik të kohës së tyre dhe konceptohen si shfaqje të rëndësishme të kulturës.
- Objectives
-
Objektivi është thellimi i njohurive dhe reflektimi rreth lëvizjeve, periudhave dhe autorëve kryesorë të letërsisë Amerikane nga fillimet e saj deri në ditët e sotme.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Introduction to American Literature, Colonial Period to 1790, Puritanism: J. Smith, A. Bradstreet, J. Edwards, W. Bradford, (selected passages)
- 2
- The New Republic (1790-1820): B. Franklin, Th. Paine, T. Jefferson, De Crèvecoeur (selected passages)
- 3
- The flowering of Romanticism (1820-1865): W. Irving, J. F. Cooper; E.A. Poe,
- 4
- The Romantics: H. Melville. H. B. Stowe Transcendentalism: R.W. Emerson, H.D. Thoreau, N, Hawthorne
- 5
- Civil War Period (The Gilded Age): W. Whitman and the Traditionalist (The Bostonian Brahmin): H.W. Longfellow
- 6
- Regional writing and Local Colour: The Afro-American Slavery Literature through the works of O. Equiano & F. Douglas
- 7
- Revising: Discussion on the American Literature from the Colonial Period to the end of the 19th century (beginnings -1865)
- 8
- Mid-term Exam
- 9
- The Continental Nation: Realism (1865-1900): Mark Twain, E. Dickinson,
- 10
- Realism & Naturalism : K. Chopin; H. James, S. Crane, J. London,
- 11
- Progressive Era (1900-1945) : American Literature up to the end of the World War II: R. Frost, E. Pound, T.S Eliot, W. Stevens, E.E. Cummings, J. Steinbeck, R. Wright
- 12
- Lost Generation Mainstream : F. S. Fitzgerald, W. Faulkner, E. Hemingway
- 13
- Cultural Diversity in American Literature (1945-1980): S. Bellow, T. Williams
- 14
- Feminist movement of the ’60s-’70s : A. Rich, A. Walker, E. Bishop, A. Sexton, T. Morison
- 15
- Revising: Discussion on the American Literature from Realism up to the end of the 20th century (1865-1980)
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Discussion of the most important currents of American literature.
- 2
- Discussion of the most important authors of American literature from its beginnings to the present day.
- 3
- Analysis and the presentation of ideas of literary authors and their evaluation in cultural perspective.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 20% 20%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 1 10% 10%
- Term projects
- 1 15% 15%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 5% 5%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 50%
- Final exam percent
- 50%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 4 64
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 2 10 20
- Midterms
- 1 9 9
- Final exam
- 1 15 15
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 150
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 6.00
- ECTS
- 6.00