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-= final examination topics: MA, American
+= 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)
+# 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
+# Extending the canon of American literature: women’s traditions and African American traditions (19th century, modernist, postmodernist)
+# Alternative traditions of American literature: the American female gothic, feminist utopia and dystopia, the passing novel, multicultural identity fiction
+# Feminist literary and cultural theories
+# Reading literature after deconstruction: feminist, African American, and queer approaches
+# The myth of the American Eden, the Promised Land
+# The American Dream or the topos of “making it”
+# Representations of the American family and family values
+# Travel and mobility in American literature
+# Race, class and ethnicity in American literature
+# Counter-culture and alternative lifestyles
+# The topos of inititation
+# The machine and the garden
+== recommended readings
+* Bollobás Enikő, Az amerikai irodalom története. Budapest: Osiris, 2005.
+* Gray, Richard, A History of American Literature. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
+* Elliott, Emory, ed., Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia UP, 1998.
+* Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed., The Cambridge History of American Literature , I, II, VIII. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994, 1995, 1999.
+* Abádi Nagy Zoltán, Mai amerikai regénykalauz. Budapest: Intera Rt., 1995.
+* Ruland, Richard, and Malcolm Bradbury, From Puritanism to Postmodernism. London: Routledge, 1991.
+* Bercovitch, Sacvan, Reconstructing American Literary History. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986.
+* Bigsby, C. W. E., A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.
+* Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Black Literature and Literary Theory. New York: Methuen, 1984.
+* Fauchereau, Serge, Századunk amerikai költészetérõl. Budapest: Európa, 1974.
+* Fiedler, Leslie, Love and Death in the American Novel. New York: Criterion, 1960.
+* Matthiessen, F.O., The American Renaissance. New York: Oxford UP, 1941.
+* Scott, Bonnie Kime, ed., The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.
+* Baym, Nina, Feminism and American Literary History. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992.
+* Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Nellie Y. McKay, ed., The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: Norton, 1997.
+* Lauter, Paul, ed., Reconstructing American Literature: Courses, Syllabi, Issues. New York: Feminist Press, 1983.
+* Martin, Steven-Paul, Open Form and the Feminine Imagination. The Politics of Reading in Twentieth-Century Innovative Writing. Washington, D.C.: Maisonneuve P, 1988.
+* Singh, Amritjit, Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., and Robert E. Hogan, ed., Memory and Cultural Politics: New Approaches to American Ethnic Literatures. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1996.
+* Singh, Amritjit, Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., and Robert E. Hogan, ed., Memory, Narrative, and Identity: New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1994.
+* McHale, Brian, Postmodernist Fiction. London: Methuen, 1987.
+* Greenblatt, Stephen, and Giles Gunn, ed., Redrawing the Boundaries. The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies. New York: MLA, 1992.
+* Waugh, Patricia, ed., Literary Theory and Criticism. An Oxford Guide. Oxford UP, 2006.
+* Leitch, Vincent B., ed., The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001.
+* Wolfreys, Julian, ed., Literary Theories. A Reader and Guide. New York: New York UP, 1999.
+* Richter, David H., ed., Falling Into Theory. Conflicting Views on Reading Literature. Boston: Bedford Book of St. Martin's Press, 1994.
+* Lauter, Paul, Canons and Contexts. New York: Oxford UP, 1991.
+* Lodge, David, ed., Modern Criticism and Theory. London: Longman, 1988.
+* Harner, James H., ed., Literary Research Guide. Baltimore: New York: MLA, 2002.
+* Kopley, Richard, ed., Prospects for the Study of American Literature. A Guide for Scholars and Students. New York: New York UP, 1997.