En introduksjon til USA

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1 Emne ENG165_1, BOKMÅL, 2011 HØST, versjon 08.aug :15:50 En introduksjon til USA Emnekode: ENG165_1, Vekting: 10 studiepoeng Semester undervisningsstart og varighet: Høst, 1 semester Semester eksamen/vurdering: Høst Fagpersoner Brita Strand Rangnes (Faglærer) Introduksjon Emnet gir en innføring i sentrale tekster, forfattere, litterære perioder og sjangre (poesi, drama, novelle, roman, kortroman, grafisk roman) i USA fra den tidlige koloniale perioden til i dag. Kurset gir innblikk i representative tekster fra de viktigste periodene i amerikansk litterær historie, eksempelvis litteratur fra den koloniale perioden, den amerikanske renessansen, realismen, modernismen og etterkrigslitteratur. Tekstene vil bli lest innen kulturelle, historiske og litteraturvitenskapelige rammer. Fokus vil være på nøkkelkonsepter som ideologi, nasjonsbygging, identitetsbygging, åpenbar eller manifestert skjebne, ekspansjon vestover, ekspansjon globalt og kulturelle møter og sammenstøt. Introduction: The course provides an introduction to key texts, authors, literary periods, and literary genres (poetry, drama, short story, novel, novella, graphic novel) in the United States from the early colonial period to the present. The course will address representative texts from main periods in American literary history, such as Pre-19th century literature, the American Renaissance, Realism, Modernism, and Post-WWII literature. Literary texts will be read within a cultural, historical and literary framework. The course will focus on key aspects, such as nation-building, identity-building, "manifest destiny," westward and global expansion, and cultural meetings and collisions. Arbeidsformer To dobbelttimer forelesning i uken Det er ikke obligatorisk oppmøte på forelesninger, men det er sterkt anbefalt å delta så mye som mulig i undervisningen. Gjennom forelesingene får studentene dypere innsikt i tekstene og de interdisiplinære perspektivene som kurset tilbyr. Organisation Two double lectures a week Attendance in classes is not compulsory, but strongly recommended in order to place the texts into an interdisciplinary context. Forkunnskapskrav side 1

2 ENG165_1 - En introduksjon til USA Ingen Eksamen/vurdering Vekt Muntlig prøve 1/1 Hjelpemidler Del 1: foredrag: minutter. Her kan studenten medbringe foredragsnotater/manus og kilder. Studenten må også levere til eksamenskommisjonen en oppsummering av foredraget med kilder Del 2: eksaminering: minutter. Ingen hjelpemidler tillatt Vilkår for å gå opp til eksamen/vurdering Ingen Overlapping Emne Reduksjon (SP) The American Century (ENG160_1) 5 Amerikas århundre (ENG160_2) 5 Fremveksten av USA (ENG120_1) 5 Engelsk A, for lærere som underviser på grunnskolens småskole- og 5 mellomtrinn (EUH0210_A) Åpen for Åpent for alle bachelorstudenter ved Institutt for kultur- og språkvitenskap (IKS). Andre studenter som ønsker å ta dette emnet, må søke innen de gjeldende frister. Emneevaluering Evalueringer utgjør en sentral del av kvalitetssystemet ved UiS. Systemet på IKS omfatter studentevaluering av undervisningen i form av tidligdialog hvert semester og sluttevaluering av minst to emner innen hvert fag i løpet av et undervisningsår. For begge disse evalueringene har Kvalitetskontoret utviklet veiledninger, maler og skjemaforslag. Litteratur All students must have: The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Seventh Edition (ed. Nina Baym et al., W. W. Norton & Company, 2007). The introductory chapters to relevant authors and periods in the Norton Anthology are part of your syllabus. America: A Narrative History, Eighth Edition (George Brown Tindall, David E. Shi, W. W. Norton & side 2

3 Emne ENG165_1, BOKMÅL, 2011 HØST, versjon 08.aug :15:50 Company, 2009) The majority of the texts on this syllabus can be found in the Norton Anthology, but the following texts must be bought separately: **James Fenimore Cooper: The Prairie. Aegypan Press, ** Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian. New York: Vintage, **Art Spiegelman: The Complete Maus: A Survivor s Tale. Penguin Books, **Tomás Rivera:...y no se lo tragó la tierra /...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him. Houston, Texas: Arte Público Press, It is expected and recommended that students use a handbook of literary terms where literary and critical terms that are used in the course are explained. We recommend that students buy one of these: Ross C. Murfin and M. Ray Supryia, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. 3rd ed. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, M. H. Abrams and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, A Glossary of Literary Terms. 9th Edition. Boston: Wadsworth, A compendium of the texts marked with a single asterisk (*) will be made available at Invivo at the start of the semester. Detailed reading list: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Colonial Period, Early Republic) Anne Bradstreet: "Some Verses upon the Burning of our House," Norton, pp. 99 and 109 Edward Taylor: "Meditation 8" (1684) Norton, p. 136 *Timothy Dwight: America: or, a poem on the settlement of the British Colonies (1780) William Bradford ( ) "Of Plymouth Plantation" (Extract), Norton, p. 57- Cotton Mather "The Wonders of the Invisible World," (1693) Norton, p J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ( ): "What is an American?" (1782), Norton, p Nineteenth Century (American Renaissance) Novel: **James Fenimore Cooper: The Prairie (1827) side 3

4 ENG165_1 - En introduksjon til USA Benjamin Franklin "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" (1784) Norton, p Fredrick Jackson Turner, "On the Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1920) Norton, p Walt Whitman: "Song of Myself" Extracts (1855, 1881) Norton p Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence" (1829) Norton, p. 340 Abraham Lincoln: "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863," "Second Inaugural Address, 1865) Norton, p Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Each and All" (1846) Norton, p Emily Dickinson: "258: There s a Certain Slant of Light" (1890) Norton, p "632: The Brain - is Wider than the Sky-" (1896) Norton, p (Literary Realism) Novel: Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Norton, p Novella: Henry James: Daisy Miller: A Study (1878), Norton, p Background / Poetics: Henry James, "The Art of Fiction" (1884) Extract, Norton, p Short Story: Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wall-paper" (1892) Norton, p Twentieth Century to the Present (Literary Modernism) Ezra Pound: "In a Station of the Metro" (1913), Norton, p Canto I, Norton, p side 4

5 Emne ENG165_1, BOKMÅL, 2011 HØST, versjon 08.aug :15:50 *Canto II (1925) T.S. Eliot: "Journey of the Magi" (1935), Norton, p William Carlos Williams: "Landscape with the fall of Icarus" (1962), Norton, p Background / Poetics: *Ezra Pound: "Vorticism" *T. S. Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" Short Story: *Ernest Hemingway: "Soldier s Home" (1925) (Approaching our own Time: Postmodernism, Minority Voices and More) Drama: Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman (1949) Norton, p Allen Ginsberg: "A Supermarket in California" (1956) Norton, p Sylvia Plath: "Daddy" (1962) Norton, p *Bob Perelman: "Current Poetics" (2006) Graphic Novel: **Art Spiegelman: The Complete Maus: A Survivor s Tale ( ) Phillis Wheatley: "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1773), Norton, p. 420 Langston Hughes: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921), "Mulatto" (1927), Norton, p and Gwendolyn Brooks: "To the Diaspora" (1981), Norton, p W.E.B. Dubois: The Souls of Black Folk (Extracts) (1903) Norton, p Short Story: Alice Walker: "Everyday Use" (1973) Norton, p Leslie Marmon Silko: "Lullaby" (1981) Norton, p side 5

6 ENG165_1 - En introduksjon til USA Helen Hunt Jackson: From A Century of Dishonor (1881) Norton, p Novella / Novel **Tomás Rivera:...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1992) ** Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian (1985). Cultural / Historical Studies and Literary History: America: A Narrative History, Eighth Edition (George Brown Tindall, David E. Shi, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009) All introductions to literary periods in Norton. All introductions to the writers on the reading list in Norton. Recommended Reference Literature: Sigmund Ro, Literary America: An Introduction to the Literature of the United States. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. Harvard University Press, NB. Minor changes in the syllabus may occur. side 6