BA (Alapképzés) II., Osztatlan Tanárképzés III, Alapszakos Specializáció (Minor) II
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BA (alapképzés) II., osztatlan tanárképzés III, alapszakos specializáció (minor) II
American Literature 2
Time and venue: Friday, 10-11.40, Room 106
Friday, 12-13.40, Room 54
Instructor: Szathmári Judit (Office: 108/1; )
Office hours: Wednesday, 18 -19; Thursday, 12-13, or by appointment
DESCRIPTION AND GOALS
The seminar is designed to explore trends in 20thand 21st-century American literature by analyzing short stories, novels, and poetry. Literary trends and tendencies will be devoted detailed attention with regard to historical and intellectual aspects, as well as studies of theoretical and conceptual issues. Discussions of individual authors and major works are to provide students with an enhanced understanding of pre- and post-1945 American literary products.
ATTENDANCE AND GRADING POLICY:
Students are expected to come to sessions prepared for in-class discussions. Students must bring assigned readings for classroom discussions. In accordance with university regulations,MISSING MORE THAN THREE SESSIONS WILL RESULT IN A FAILING GRADE.
Final grades will be based on informed class attendance and contributions to discussions: (20%)
unannounced text recognition tests (20%) (NO MAKE-UP OPTION): failing to achieve 60% on the TRTswill result in a failing grade
end-term test (30%) (NO MAKE-UP OPTION)
mini essay/ critical reflection (30%) (NO MAKE-UP OPTION): see details below.
0-60% = fail (1); 61-70% = satisfactory (2); 71-80% = average (3); 81-90% = good (4); 91-100% = excellent (5).
CRITICIAL REFLECTIONS AND TEXT RECOGNITION TESTS:
TRTs are unannounced quizzes on the assigned readings. You must be able to identify short and relevant quotes (author, exact title, short context).
Critical reflections: Typed and printed 2-page (NET!!!!) MLA-format paper on topics assigned by the instructor, related to the assigned readings. Critical reflections are due at the beginning of each session they are scheduled for. They must be argumentative rather than descriptive, and MUST NOT contain plot summaries. Students are strongly encouraged to use reading assignments included in the syllabus for their paper, but may also explore other sources they find related (e. g. music, visual arts, and films).
NOTE: when preparing for your essay you may use Wikipedia and similar websites as a starting point but you are required to utilize printed material as well as more specific (and scholarly) online sources.
NO LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY AND PLAGIARISM (FAILURE TO ACKNOWLEDGE SOURCES) WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT BE TOLERATED AND WILL RESULT IN A FAILING GRADE.
READINGS
There is no single textbook available for this course. Unless otherwise available, PDF copies will be provided by the instructor
DATE / ASSIGNMENT02. 24 / Orientation, introduction to modernist American poetry
03. 03 / Ezra Pound “In a Station of the Metro,” William Carlos Williams, “Portrait of a Lady,” “The Red Wheelbarrow” e.e.cummings, “i like my body when it is with your,” “pity this busy monster, manunkind,”Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Miniver Cheevy,” “Richard Cory”
03.10 / Willa Cather, “Neighbor Rosicky,” John Steinbeck, “Flight,” Jack London, “To Build a Fire” 1stPAPER DUE
03.17 / Ernest Hemingway, “Cat in the Rain,” “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”The Sun Also Rises
03. 24 / William Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury, “A Rose for Emily”
03. 31 / Bernard Malamud, “The Magic Barrel,” Philip Roth, “Defender of the Faith” Isaac Bashevis Singer, “Gimpel the Fool”2ndPAPER DUE
04. 07 / Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” “Good Country People”
04. 14 / CONSULTATION WEEK
04. 21 / Langston Hughes, “I, Too,” Countee Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel,” Zora Neale Hurston, “The Gilded Six-Bits,” Tony Morrison, The Song of Solomon
04. 28 / Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
05. 05 / Joy Harjo, “Remember,” “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window,” Sherman Alexie, excerpts from Reservation Blues
05. 12 / Kurt Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron,” Slaughterhouse-5
3rdPAPER DUE
05.19 / END-TERM TEST
05.26 / EVALUATION
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Abádi-Nagy Zoltán. Az amerikai minimalista próza. Budapest: Argumentum, 1994.
---. Mai amerikai regénykalauz, 1970-1990. Budapest: Intera, 1995.
---. Válság és komikum: A hatvanas évek amerikai regénye. Budapest: Magvető, 1982.
Baym, Nina, et. al. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: Norton, 1989.
Bollobás, Enikő. Az amerikai irodalom története. Budapest: Osiris, 2005.
Bradbury, Malcolm, and Richard Ruland. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History
of American Literature. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Elliot,Emory, et.al. Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia U
P, 1988.
Virágos, Zsolt. The Modernists and Others. American Literary Culture in the Age of the Modernist Revolution. Debrecen: DE AAI, 2008