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+ | # 19th century American poetry: Whitman and Dickinson. Discuss the most important features of their poetry, representative works, and respective modes of innovation. | ||
+ | # The American Renaissance: | ||
+ | # Nature and the frontier in American literature. Discuss representative early and mid-19th century fiction and essays by Cooper, Emerson, and Thoreau. | ||
+ | # 19th century women writers: discuss relevant topics and perspectives, | ||
+ | # 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. | ||
+ | # The high realism of Henry James. Discuss at least one novel and one short story. | ||
+ | # 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. | ||
+ | # 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. | ||
+ | # 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. | ||
+ | # 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. | ||
+ | # Formalism and New Criticism | ||
+ | # Structuralism and narratology | ||
+ | # Poststructuralism: | ||
+ | # Feminist, gay and lesbian criticism | ||
+ | # Performative theory and intersubjective theory | ||
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+ | == recommended readings | ||
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+ | * 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, | ||
+ | * Scott, Bonnie Kime, ed., The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology. Bloomington: | ||
+ | * 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, | ||
+ | * 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' | ||
+ | * 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. |
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