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 = final examination topics: MA, American literature
-# Canonical periods, genres, and traditions of American literature (Puritan literature, Enlightenment writing, the American Renaissance, late-19th century realism, modernisms, postmodernisms)
+# 19th century American poetry: Whitman and Dickinson. Discuss the most important features of their poetry, representative works, and respective modes of innovation.
-# Indigenous genres of American literature (the escape narrative, the slave narrative, nature writing, the passing novel), the theme of individuality, and the myth of the frontier
+# The American Renaissance: its literature and philosophy. Discuss the main principles, philosophical background, and at least four representative texts (one from Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville each).
-# Extending the canon of American literature: women’s traditions and African American traditions (19th century, modernist, postmodernist)
+# Nature and the frontier in American literature. Discuss representative early and mid-19th century fiction and essays by Cooper, Emerson, and Thoreau.
-# Alternative traditions of American literature: the American female gothic, feminist utopia and dystopia, the passing novel, multicultural identity fiction
+# 19th century women writers: discuss relevant topics and perspectives, with examples from Gilman and Glaspell.
-# Feminist literary and cultural theories
+# Two traditions of modernism in American poetry: discuss high modernism and radical modernism by highlighting the relevant tenets as expounded in essays and practiced in poetic texts.
-# Reading literature after deconstruction: feminist, African American, and queer approaches
+# The high realism of Henry James. Discuss at least one novel and one short story.
-# The myth of the American Eden, the Promised Land
+# Traditions of modernism in American fiction: discuss tenets and modes of writing; bring examples from at least three novels and three short stories written by Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Stein.
-# The American Dream or the topos of “making it”
+# African American modernism: discuss tenets and modes of writing; bring examples from at least two novels and two short stories written by Wright, Hurston, Larsen, and Johnson.
-# Representations of the American family and family values
+# 20th century women fiction writers: discuss tenets and modes of writing; bring examples from at least one novel and two short stories written by O’Connor, McCullers, and Morrison.
-# Travel and mobility in American literature
+# The passing novel in 20th century American fiction: discuss race and gender passing; bring examples from at least three major texts written by Johnson, Larsen, Hwang, and Roth.
-# Race, class and ethnicity in American literature
+# Formalism and New Criticism
-# Counter-culture and alternative lifestyles
+# Structuralism and narratology
-# The topos of inititation
+# Poststructuralism: postmodernism and deconstruction
-# The machine and the garden
+# Feminist, gay and lesbian criticism
+# Performative theory and intersubjective theory
 == recommended readings