(in Polish) Literatura amerykańska do 1945 roku 340-AR1-1LA
The lecture allows students to understand the periods of American literature, their main movements, key representatives, and their works.
Studies’ profile: general academic.
Full-time studies.
Type of course: compulsory.
Field: Literary and cultural studies, Humanities, English Philology.
Year: 1st.
Didactic methods: lecture, text analysis, debate/discussion.
ECTS points: 2.
Students’ workload balance:
- Participation in classes: 30h
- Preparation / consultation / projects / test and preparation: 30h
Quantitative indicators:
- Student’s workload connected with classes which require assistance from the teacher: 1.
- Student’s workload connected with practical classes: 1.
Prerequisites (description)
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Learning outcomes
After the course the student knows:
- KP6_WG2 - at an advanced level, literary works, phenomena and processes of a given language area and theories explaining their cultural background and
relationships between them
- KP6_WG7 methods of text analysis and interpretation within selected literary traditions and theories
- KP6_WK4 - historical and cultural conditions of a given language area
The student can:
- KP6_UW2 - conduct critical analysis and interpretation of literary texts using philological methods that allow for assessing their significance in the historical and cultural process
- KP6_UW7 - correctly select sources and information derived from them in the field of literary studies and evaluate, critically analyze and synthesize this information
- KP6_UK2 - communicate using specialist terminology from the field of literary studies, taking into account socio-cultural elements
Methods of verification: discussion, written test.
Assessment criteria
The course ends with a written exam (test).
Bibliography
Basic sources:
Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature, CUP 1999.
Bradley, Scully et al. The American Tradition in Literature, New York: Random House 1981.
Hart, James D. The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature, New York and Oxford: OUP1986.
High, Peter B. An Outline of American Literature, London and New York: Longman 1997.
Norton Anthology of American Literature, New York: Norton 1998.
Further reading:
Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, red. W kanonie prozy amerykańskiej. Od Nathaniela Hawthorne’a do Joyce Carol Oates, Warszawa: Academica 2007.
Aleksandrowicz-Pędich, red. W kanonie prozy amerykańskiej. Z Placu Waszyngtona do „Domu z liści”, Warszawa: Academica 2009.
Additional information
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